Object Details
- Description
- Vase, with two broad wing-handles.
- Clay: hard, grayish.
- Glaze: rich, deep, brilliant wine-red (close to black) mottled with black, over iron wash.
- Provenance
- To 1897
- Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1897 [1]
- From 1897 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1897 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, 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
- The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing)
- The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019)
- The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)
- Freer: A Taste for Japanese Art (July 1, 2006 to January 1, 2007)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- 19th century
- Period
- Edo period or Meiji era
- Accession Number
- F1897.32
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron glaze; glass-powder repair on base
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (overall): 33.2 x 37.2 x 19.7 cm (13 1/16 x 14 5/8 x 7 3/4 in)
- Style
- Kyoto or Kyoto-related ware
- Origin
- Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan
- On View
- Freer Gallery 12: The Peacock Room Comes to America
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- The Story of the Beautiful
- 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
- Kyoto ware
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- Meiji era (1868 - 1912)
- Japan
- stoneware
- brown and black glaze
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1897.32
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye386f41fe6-f2bb-4484-8a96-f8d025be8b6b
