Individual serving bowl, Shidoro ware

Tea bowl, inverted bell-shape; low foot.
Clay: hard, musical; light gray.
Glaze: reddish-brown, with overflow of yellow and olive, and splash of dull metallic brownish-black at one place on rim. Footrim and base unglazed.
Seal: Shidoro [Jap], inside rectangular frame, to right inside footrim.

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Historical period(s)
Edo period, 1700-1865
Medium
Stoneware with iron and ash glazes
Style
Shidoro ware
Dimensions
H x Diam: 7.1 Ɨ 12.2 cm (2 13/16 Ɨ 4 13/16 in)
Geography
Japan, Shizuoka prefecture
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art
Accession Number
F1902.185
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Ceramic, Vessel
Type

Individual serving bowl (mukozuke)

Keywords
Edo period (1615 - 1868), Japan, Shidoro ware, stoneware, tea
Provenance

To 1902
Shozo Kato, London, to 1902 [1]

From 1902 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Shozo Kato in 1902 [2]

From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1167, 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.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Shozo Kato (C.L. Freer source) 1851-1930
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919

Description

Tea bowl, inverted bell-shape; low foot.
Clay: hard, musical; light gray.
Glaze: reddish-brown, with overflow of yellow and olive, and splash of dull metallic brownish-black at one place on rim. Footrim and base unglazed.
Seal: Shidoro [Jap], inside rectangular frame, to right inside footrim.

Marking(s)

Shidoro [Jap], inside rectangular frame, to right inside footrim.

Collection Area(s)
Japanese Art
Web Resources
Google Cultural Institute
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