- Provenance
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To 1902
Samuel Colman (1832-1920), New York, NY, and Newport, RI, to 1902 [1]From 1902 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at the sale of the Samuel Colman Collection, American Art Association, New York, March 19-22, 1902 [2]From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1150, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Samuel Colman was collecting Asian objects by at least 1880 (see Curatorial Remark 10, Louise Cort, April 20, 2007, in the object record).
[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)
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Samuel Colman 1832-1920
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
American Art Association (C.L. Freer source) established 1883
- Description
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Container for live coals; hexagonal bowl on high cylindrical foot.
Clay: earthenware, light gray.
Glaze: transparent lead glaze, minutely crackled in brown; iridescent. Lower interior unglazed, coated with iron wash.
Decoration: In iron pigment and underglaze enamels, autumn landscape, bush clover and chrysanthemums, courtiers and peasants on outside; multi-colored clouds on band inside rim.
- Label
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The unglazed interior and the shape suggest a pot to hold live embers for lighting pipes. The faceting resembles the folds of a screen. Six Tama (Jeweled) rivers are employed poetically in Japan. This one, identifiable by the cloth-processing vignettes, is the Tama River in Musashino, present-day Tokyo.
- Published References
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- Richard L. Wilson. The Potter's Brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese Ceramics. Exh. cat. Washington. cat. 21, p. 90.
- Collection Area(s)
- Japanese Art
- Web Resources
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