- Provenance
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To 1893
Tozo Takayanagi, New York to 1893 [1]From 1893 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tozo Takayanagi in 1893 [2]From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 302, 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)
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Takayanagi Tozo (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
- Description
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Cylindrical tea bowl (tsutsu chawan ēč¶ē¢) Low foot with four notches: spiral carved on base.
Clay: hard, ringing, grayish. under glaze, dark brown where exposed, with spots of iron bleeding through glaze.
Glaze: Clear glossy glaze. Opaque white around rim, dripping down one side.
Footrim and base glazed.
Mark: Inner edge of footrim: "Asahi."
Decoration: vertical slashes on walls, cutting through pronounced throwing marks.
- Marking(s)
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Inner edge of foot rim: "Asahi"
- Published References
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- , no. 39 Lexington, Massachusetts, 2018. p. 138, fig. 8.
- Collection Area(s)
- Japanese Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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