Long-necked bottle

Object Details

• Description

  Long-necked bottle (chokeihei) (^j^)

  Clay: fine-grained stoneware, light gray.

  Glaze: narrow strip of olive green ash glaze deposited naturally in the course of firing on the forward-facing surfaces of the flask, including the interior of the neck, the rim and exterior of the neck, the shoulder and body, and the foot.

  Decoration: none.

  Mark: none.

• Inscriptions

  1. (Louise A. Cort, 1985) The cedar box that accompanies this long-necked flask bears the following identification inscribed on the top of the lid by the Japanese collector who owned the piece in the early 1960s:

  Konin doki (Konin earthenware) [square red seal]

  chokei (long neck)

  shizenyu ari (has natural glaze)

  hei (flask).

• Provenance

  Mary Louise O'Brien [1]

  From 1985

  Freer Gallery of Art., purchased at auction, Christie's, New York and Manson & Woods International, Inc., New York, March 21, 1985, lot no. 539 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] According to Curatorial Note 6 in object record.

  [2] See Note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mary Louise O'Brien

  Christie's (New York)

• Origin

  Sanage kiln group, Aichi prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  800s, 700s

• Name

  O'Brien, Mary Louise, Christie's, New York

• Place

  Aichi prefecture, Japan, Sanage kiln group

• Topic

  Heian period (794 - 1185), Art, Nara period (645 - 794), Stoneware, Sanage ware, Japanese Art

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)