Kendi with silver fittings

Object Details

• Description

  Water vessel with long neck and pouring spout (kendi) and silver fittings.

  Clay: porcelain.

  Glaze: clear pale glaze ("celadon"). Glazed on interior and on base excepting footrim.

  Decoration: broadly incised fluting on body (running from shoulder to foot) and on spout (running from shoulder to point of attachment to body).

  Mark: none.

  Fittings: The wide everted rim of the elongated neck an the tip of the spout are encased in silver and supplied with silver stoppers; the stoppers are connected by a long chain; the silver is decorated by stamping and chasing.

• Provenance

  About 1968 to 1986

  Dorothy M. Slak, Sarasota, Florida, acquired in Jakarta about 1968 [1]

  From 1986

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Dorothy M. Slak in 1986

  Notes:

  [1] According to Curatorial Note 10 in object record.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Shades of Green and Blue: Chinese Celadon Ceramics (July 15, 1997 to September 7, 2004)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Ms. Dorothy M. Slak

• Origin

  Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dorothy M. Slak

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Slak, Dorothy M.

• Place

  Japan, Saga prefecture, Arita

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Arita ware, Green glaze, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)