Tea bowl in the shape of an Ido tea bowl, Hagi ware

Tea bowl is in shape of Korean Ido tea bowl. Fire-crack filled with lacquer.
Clay: hard, resonant
Glaze: luminous old-rose-pink, with touches of olive-yellow; closely crackled, rough surface. Four spur-marks on glazed footrim. Tea stains on interior.

Historical period(s)
Edo period, mid 18th-mid 19th century
Medium
Stoneware with ash glaze
Style
Hagi ware
Dimensions
H x Diam: 8.2 x 15.4 cm (3 1/4 x 6 1/16 in)
Geography
Japan, Yamaguchi prefecture
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art
Accession Number
F1898.20
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Ceramic, Vessel
Type

Tea bowl

Keywords
Edo period (1615 - 1868), Hagi ware, Japan, stoneware, tea
Provenance

To 1898
Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1898 [1]

From 1898 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1898 [2]

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

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 539, 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)

Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
Yamanaka and Co. (C.L. Freer source) 1917-1965

Description

Tea bowl is in shape of Korean Ido tea bowl. Fire-crack filled with lacquer.
Clay: hard, resonant
Glaze: luminous old-rose-pink, with touches of olive-yellow; closely crackled, rough surface. Four spur-marks on glazed footrim. Tea stains on interior.

Label

Later potters working at the Hagi kilns consciously produced replicas of classic Korean tea-bowl shapes. This bowl echoes the shape of the so-called Ido tea bowl that was made at provincial Korean kilns in the sixteenth century.  Frequent use of this bowl for making tea caused the color of the clay body to change--a phenomenon connoisseurs welcomed.

Collection Area(s)
Japanese Art
Web Resources
Google Cultural Institute
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