Ewer

Object Details

• Description

  Off-white clay. Three small cylindrical feet on base. Underglaze iron painted decoration of trailing vines on shoulder, trellis on body, palmlike band on bail handle, ferns on lid. Feldspathic glaze, glossy thick and white; think coat of glaze on base; inside glazed. Circular scar in glaze around perimeter of base. Clay: coarse gray stoneware; fired reddish in spots. Glaze: grayish, semi-opaque, crackled, uneven. Decoration: in underglaze iron; trellis, (or shibori-dyed textile) floral motifs; ferns on cover.

• Provenance

  Hosomi Kokoan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan [1]

  To 1967

  Yamanaka and Company, Ltd., Osaka, Japan to 1967 [2]

  From 1967

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Yamanaka and Company, Ltd., Osaka, Japan in 1967 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] According to Louise Cort's 1985 note, the object was in Hosomi Kokoan's 1963 publication "Kobijitsu wo ikashita hanaike no bi", no. 114. (See curatorial note in database).

  [2] See Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

  [3] See note 2.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Japanese Ceramics from Seto and Mino (January 19, 1996 to August 5, 2001)

  The Glazed Ceramic Tradition of Mino and Seto Wares (April 26, 1985 to January 13, 1986)

  Japanese Ceramics (June 22, 1982 to September 27, 1982)

  Japanese Ceramics (July 15, 1980 to June 21, 1982)

  Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)

  Japanese Art--Shinto (October 12, 1976 to December 10, 1976)

  Japanese Art: Paintings and Pottery (July 1, 1966 to May 2, 1973)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Hosomi Kokoan Gallery

  Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965)

• Origin

  Motoyashiki Higashi kilns, Toki city, Gifu prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1590s, 1600s

• Name

  Hosomi Kokoan Gallery, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Toki city, Japan, Gifu prefecture, Motoyashiki Higashi kilns

• Topic

  Wine and wine making, Art, Momoyama period (1573 - 1615), Japanese Art, Ceramics, Flowers, Mino ware, Shino type, Sake

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)