- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Water-jar (mizusashi) in form of a well-head, quadrilateral, cypress (sugi) wood cover with nashiji lacquer lining and metal ornaments of crab and bird.
Clay: hard, dense, cream-colored stoneware
Glaze: transparent, finely crackled
Decoration: in pink, light green and pale lavender enamels and gold, over glaze. Chrysanthemums, grasses and vines outside. Peony scroll band at top of inside. Underglaze impression of grasses outside.
- Label
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In the tea ceremony, the water jar holds cold water used to replenish the kettle as boiling water is ladled out to make bowls of tea. Tea practitioners paid special attention to certain famous wells as sources of delicious water-a key element in Japanese gardens. This jar's form represents the wooden curb surrounding such a well. Chrysanthemums rendered in pale colors and gold suggest a private garden setting enclosing the well and also indicate the season.
- Published References
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- Edmond de Goncourt. Objets d'art japonais et chinois, peintures estampes composant la collection de Goncourt. Paris. no. 295.
- Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections. 12 vols., Tokyo. vol. 10, pl. 188.
- Matsumura Makiko. Furea gyarari no Satsumayaki [Satsuma Ware in the Freer Gallery]. no. 19, April 9, 2005. pp. 3-8.
- Louise Allison Cort. Beikoku no Nihon tojiki kenkyu konjaku [American research on Japanese Ceramics, Past and Present]. vol. 85 Sakura-shi, November 20, 1997. p. 29.
- Thomas Lawton, Linda Merrill. Freer: a legacy of art. Washington and New York, 1993. p. 116, fig. 77.
- , no. 39 Lexington, Massachusetts, 2018. p. 147, fig. 21.
- Constance Bond. Daimyo's Choice at the Freer. Washington, April 1986. p. 162.
- Collection Area(s)
- Japanese Art
- Web Resources
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