Mino ware tea-leaf storage jar

Object Details

Description: Light gray clay, fine grained and hard. Concentrically trimmed base. Four lugs on shoulder. Single line incised at base of neck; broad band of decorative combing below angle of shoulder. Impressed mark on base shaped like "walnut meat" (kurumi-in). Opaque brown iron glaze, stopping well above foot, splashed with ash glaze that appears black where well melted, yellow-brown where incompletely melted. Some kiln debris on shoulder. Inside inglazed.
Inscriptions: Impressed mark on base shaped like "walnut meat" (kurumi-in).
Provenance: To 1900; Hayashi Tadamasa, (1853 -1906), Paris, to 1900 [1]; From 1900 to 1919; Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Hayashi Tadamasa in 1900 [2]; From 1920; Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]; Notes:; [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 782, 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: Storage Jars (March 15, 2014 to June 28, 2015); The Potter's Mark: Tea Ceramics and Their Makers (August 18, 2007 to February 24, 2008); Japanese Ceramics from Seto and Mino (January 19, 1996 to August 5, 2001)
Previous custodian or owner: Hayashi Tadamasa 林忠正? (1853-1906) (C.L. Freer source); Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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Topic: ceramic; Mino ware; Edo period (1615 - 1868); tea; Japan; stoneware; Japanese Art; Charles Lang Freer collection

GUID (Link to Original Record): http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye390412bc6-d54b-4e45-8d9f-8c0e47234403