Object Details
- Artist
- Kato Buemon (Shun'u) (died 1827)
- Description
- Light gray clay, darkened on surface by use. Potter's mark on base to right. Clear ash glaze under copper-green (rusu) glaze streaked with bluish white, forming thick welt just above base. Clear glaze on inside. Relief figure of tiny frog climbing over rim. With ivory lid.
- Marks
- Potter's mark, "Shun'u," without frame, impressed on base to right.
- Provenance
- To 1898
- Japanese Trading Company, New York to 1898 [1]
- From 1898 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Japanese Trading 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. 739, 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
- Previous custodian or owner
- Japanese Trading Company (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- 1770-1827
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1898.446a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Container
- Medium
- Stoneware with copper-green glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 10.8 × 6.1 cm (4 1/4 × 2 3/8 in)
- Style
- Seto ware
- Origin
- Seto, Aichi prefecture, Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Arts & Culture
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- ceramic
- Seto ware
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- frog
- tea
- Japan
- stoneware
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1898.446a-b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3d711a2f5-eb6b-423e-9218-3d28139f812c
