Tea bowl

Object Details

• Description

  Gray clay. Silk crêpe storage bag. Paulownia wood storage box. Indian block-printed cotton wrapper (furoshiki).

• Provenance

  To 1998

  Peggy and Richard M. Danziger, New York City, to 1998

  From 1998

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Peggy and Richard M. Danziger in 1998

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Imperfectly Beautiful: Inventing Japanese Ceramic Style (October 14, 2017 - October 14, 2019)

  Rusticity Refined: Kyoto Ceramics by Ninsei (March 19 to October 23, 2005)

  Storage Boxes and Accessories (June 22, 2003 to January 4, 2004)

  The Idea of China in Japan: The Tea Ceremony in Japan (December 19, 1999 to June 11, 2000)

  Beyond the Legacy--Anniversary Acquisitions of the Freer Gallery of Art (October 11, 1998 to April 11, 1999)

  The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th-Century Art in Japan (October 19 to December 1, 1991)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Peggy and Richard M. Danziger

• Origin

  Mino kilns, Gifu prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Peggy and Richard M. Danziger

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1590s, 1600s

• Name

  Danziger, Peggy and Richard M.

• Place

  Japan, Gifu prefecture, Mino kilns

• Topic

  Tea, Art, Momoyama period (1573 - 1615), Japanese Art, Ceramics, Mino ware, Black Seto type

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)