Bottle with design of bamboo, possibly Tamba ware

Bottle with globular body and small neck; flaring lip; flat unglazed foot.
Clay: medium gray.
Glaze: mottled cream slip with large pinkish brown areas; fine crackle; clear glaze reaching to foot.
Decoration: bamboo trees painted in underglaze iron; some areas of greenish tone.

Historical period(s)
Edo period, 18th-19th century
Medium
Stoneware with white slip and iron decoration under clear glaze
Style
Possibly Tamba ware
Dimensions
H x Diam: 19.2 × 14.5 cm (7 9/16 × 5 11/16 in)
Geography
Japan, Hyogo prefecture, Tachikui
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art
Accession Number
F1900.83
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Ceramic, Vessel
Type

Bottle

Keywords
bamboo, Edo period (1615 - 1868), Japan, stoneware, Tamba ware
Provenance

Ikeda Seisuke (1839-1900), Kyoto [1]

To 1900
Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1900 [2]

From 1900 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1900 [3]

From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

Notes:

[1] According to Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

[2] See Original Pottery List, L. 796, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

[3] See note 2.

[4] 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) and Custodian(s)

Ikeda Seisuke 1839-1900
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
Bunkio Matsuki (C.L. Freer source) 1867-1940

Description

Bottle with globular body and small neck; flaring lip; flat unglazed foot.
Clay: medium gray.
Glaze: mottled cream slip with large pinkish brown areas; fine crackle; clear glaze reaching to foot.
Decoration: bamboo trees painted in underglaze iron; some areas of greenish tone.

Published References
  • Toki Zenshu. 32 vols., Tokyo, 1957 - 1963. vol. 17: pls. 2, 32.
  • Sekai toji zenshu [Catalogue of the World's Ceramics]. 19 vols., Tokyo, 1976-1982. vol. 19 (1980): pl. 126, 192.
  • Imada. Dai Tambayaki ten [The Great Tamba-ware Exhibition]. Exh. cat. cat. 98.
Collection Area(s)
Japanese Art
Web Resources
Google Cultural Institute
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