Hagi ware serving bowl with arching handle

Object Details

• Description

  Shallow bowl with arching handle and high foot with two notches.

  Clay: coarse buff gray stoneware fired reddish.

  Glaze: opaque grayish white; crackled; uneven.

  Decoration: none.

• Provenance

  To 1968

  N.V. Hammer, Inc., New York. [1]

  From 1968

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from N.V. Hammer, Inc., New York. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

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

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

  Japanese Paintings Attributed to Iwasa Matabei (July 1, 1974 to October 1, 1975)

• Previous custodian or owner

  N.V. Hammer, Inc.

• Origin

  Hagi, Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1910s, 1960s

• Name

  N.V. Hammer, Inc.

• Place

  Japan, Hagi, Yamaguchi prefecture

• Topic

  Rice-straw-ash glaze, Art, Showa era (1926 - 1989), Stoneware, Japanese Art, Hagi ware, Taisho era (1912 - 1926)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)