Individual serving bowl

Individual serving bowl (mukozuke 向付): thinly potted, low thinly trimmed foot. One chip in lip.
Clay: fine-grained brown stoneware.
Glaze: thin, transparent, semi-matte, some fine crackle, some pitting, covers all but bearing edge of foot.
Decoration: underglaze; thick creamy slip laid on with special brush (hakeme decoration) with patting and a motion to create a pattern characteristic of this ware. One of a pair: F1911.327-F1911.328.

Historical period(s)
Edo period, 1690-1750
Medium
Stoneware with white slip under clear glaze
Style
Utsutsugawa ware
Dimensions
H x W: 5.7 x 11.4 cm (2 1/4 x 4 1/2 in)
Geography
Japan, Nagasaki prefecture, Isahaya
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art
Accession Number
F1911.327
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Ceramic, Vessel
Type

Individual serving bowl (mukozuke)

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

To 1911
Kai Feng-fu, to 1911 [1]

From 1911 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at Kai Feng-fu in 1911 [2]

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

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2097, 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)

Kai Feng-fu (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919

Description

Individual serving bowl (mukozuke 向付): thinly potted, low thinly trimmed foot. One chip in lip.
Clay: fine-grained brown stoneware.
Glaze: thin, transparent, semi-matte, some fine crackle, some pitting, covers all but bearing edge of foot.
Decoration: underglaze; thick creamy slip laid on with special brush (hakeme decoration) with patting and a motion to create a pattern characteristic of this ware. One of a pair: F1911.327-F1911.328.

Published References
  • Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections. 12 vols., Tokyo. vol. 10, pl. 184.
  • Louise Allison Cort. Korean Influences in Japanese Ceramics. vol. 15, no. 5 Hong Kong, May 1984. p. 22.
Collection Area(s)
Japanese Art
Web Resources
Google Cultural Institute
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