Box with lid for teabowl (not in collection), containing silk bag

Object Details

• Provenance

  To 1899

  Yamanaka and Company, to 1899 [1]

  From 1899 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka and Company in 1899 [2]

  From 1920

  The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See Voucher No. 41, December 1899, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This wooden box originally held one teabowl by Ishikawa Jozan (1583-1672).

  The teabowl given to Mrs. Stephen Rhoades by C.L. Freer in May 1917 (for more information, see Curatorial Remark 1, Elizabeth Duley, June 2001, and Curatorial Remark 2, Louise Cort, July 15, 2010, in the object record).

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Kyoto, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Container

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan

• Topic

  Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Containers