- Provenance
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To 1897
Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1897 [1]From 1897 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1897 [2]From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 493, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[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.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
Yamanaka and Co. (C.L. Freer source) 1917 - 1965
- Description
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Tea-bowl, deep ovoid, on high spreading notched foot.
Goki [JPN] shape.
Clay: hard, dense, grayish. Orange flush on surface.
Glaze: grayish-white with slight greenish tinge, flushed with faint mauve-pink; crackled.
Impressed mark: Cipher of Ikeda Nakamasa, on body near foot.
- Label
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The cipher impressed near the foot of this bowl is that of Ikeda Nakamasa, head of a branch of the Tottori clan. Nakamasa commissioned such bowls at the Imkyuzan pottery sponsored by the main Ikeda house. The bowls were probably executed by a potter who was brought in shortly after 1800 from the large ceramic center of Shigaraki.
- Collection Area(s)
- Japanese Art
- Web Resources
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