Tea caddy, Oribe type

Light brown clay with brown flecks. String-cut base. Decoration of cross hatching pattern carefully incised or possibly impressed on drum-shaped lower body. Thin, mottled iron-ash glaze, wiped off irregularly well above foot, leaving orange flush; neck and shoulder dipped into glossy brown glaze, running irregularly down body in two streams. Inside unglazed.

Historical period(s): Edo period, 1620-1650

Medium: Stoneware with ash and iron glazes; ivory lid

Style: Seto-related ware

Dimensions: H x W x D: 9.4 x 5.2 x 5.2 cm (3 11/16 x 2 1/16 x 2 1/16 in)

Geography: Japan

Credit Line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number: F1911.395a-b

On View Location: Currently not on view

Classification(s): Ceramic, Vessel

Type: Tea caddy (Oribe chaire)

Keywords: Edo period (1615 - 1868), Japan, Oribe style ware, Seto-related ware, stoneware, Takatori ware, tea

Provenance

To 1911
Y. Fujita and Company, Kyoto, to 1911 [1]

From 1911 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Y. Fujita and Company in 1911 [2]

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

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2182, 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): Y. Fujita and Company (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer 1854 - 1919

Description: Light brown clay with brown flecks. String-cut base. Decoration of cross hatching pattern carefully incised or possibly impressed on drum-shaped lower body. Thin, mottled iron-ash glaze, wiped off irregularly well above foot, leaving orange flush; neck and shoulder dipped into glossy brown glaze, running irregularly down body in two streams. Inside unglazed.

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