Tea bowl
Object Details
- Description
- Tea bowl, deep ovoidal; heavy foot notched in three places.
- Clay: hard, gray, coarse-grained.
- Glaze: white slip under clear glaze (kohiki technique); crackled. Fissured and pitted.
- Provenance
- To 1901
- Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), Paris to 1901 [1]
- From 1901 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Siegfried Bing, Paris in 1901
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 951, 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
- Parades: Freer Ceramics Installed by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott (November 4, 2006 to January 7, 2008)
- Japanese Art (May 9, 1993 to November 21, 1995)
- Korean Influences on Japanese Slip-Decorated Ceramics (February 16, 1984 to November 9, 1984)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Siegfried Bing (1838-1905) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- 18th-19th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1901.72
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with white slip under clear glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 9.6 × 11.5 cm (3 3/4 × 4 1/2 in)
- Origin
- Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Arts & Culture
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- ceramic
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- tea
- Japan
- stoneware
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1901.72
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3f825367a-3bc4-4dc7-9263-fa7939d91748
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