Bowl, Takeo Karatsu ware

Object Details

• Description

  Large deep bowl.

  Clay: stoneware, brown to brick red on exposed surfaces, with some small white stones; appearing gray brown under clear glaze.

  Glaze: on front, white slip, combed into undulating patterns, under clear glaze. glaze covers front of dish incompletely and covers only edge of back, with irregular runs.

  Decoration: on front, over combed slip pattern in cavetto, one long trail of copper green and, across from it, one long trail of iron-yellow, both faint. In bottom, three large oval sandy spur marks; judging from spacing of these marks, seven or eight spurs altogether were probably used, the others not adhering to the unglazed slip areas.

• Provenance

  From 1962 to 1987

  Mr. Floyd L. Whittington, Sun City, Arizona, acquired in Indonesia through a local man. [1]

  From 1987

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd L. Whittington, Sun City, Arizona. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] According to Louise Cort, “This plate is one of three similar ones acquired by Mr. Whittington in Indonesia in 1962.

  Mr. Whittington was Counsellor for Political Affairs at the American Embassy in Jakarta. The plates were acquired for him by a local man whom he funded regularly to go on buying trips. Mr. Whittington believes that these three plates were probably acquired somewhere in upper Borneo, above Kalimantan.” See Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1. See also Deed of Gift, copy in object file.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Japanese Art from the Collection (October 26, 2024 - ongoing)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mr. and Mrs. Floyd L. Whittington

• Origin

  Takeo Karatsu kilns, Takeo, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd L. Whittington

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 06A: Japanese Art from the Collection

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• Name

  Whittington, Floyd L.

• Place

  Takeo Karatsu kilns, Takeo, Japan, Saga prefecture

• Topic

  Karatsu ware, Takeo Karatsu type, Art, White slip, Copper pigment, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Southeast Asian Art, Ceramics, Iron pigment

• Culture

  Southeast Asians, Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes