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Vase for Buddhist altar

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At A Glance

  • Period

    1800-1868

  • Geography

    Seto, Aichi prefecture, Japan

  • Material

    Stoneware with cobalt pigment under clear glaze, rice-straw ash glaze

  • Dimension

    H x Diam: 34.9 × 10.9 cm (13 3/4 × 4 5/16 in)

  • Accession Number

    F1901.119

  • EDAN ID

    edanmdm:fsg_F1901.119

Object Details

  • Description

    Light gray clay. Two lion-head-shaped loop handles. Incised decoration on neck and base; molded and hand-formed relief decor of peonies accented with under-glaze cobalt blue. Clear glaze, crackled, yellow-green where thick. Splashed on both sides of neck with opaque bluish white unofu glaze. Clear glaze on inside.

  • Provenance

    To 1901
    Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1901 [1]
    From 1901 to 1919
    Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1901 [2]
    From 1920
    Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]
    Notes:
    [1]
    See Pottery List, L. 1007, 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.

  • Collection

    Freer Gallery of Art Collection

  • Exhibition History

    Japanese Ceramics from Seto and Mino (January 19, 1996 to August 5, 2001)
    The Glazed Ceramic Tradition of Mino and Seto Wares (April 26, 1985 to January 13, 1986)

  • Previous custodian or owner

    Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)
    Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

  • Origin

    Seto, Aichi prefecture, Japan

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Charles Lang Freer

  • Type

    Vessel

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