Sake bottle with landscape decoration

Bottle (tokkuri)

Hiyamizu kiln

Freer acquired this Satsuma ware sake flask in 1905. Its delicate landscape design, attributed to Kano Tangen, a member of the Kano professional school of painters, reminded him of the very first Asian ceramic to enter his collection (F1892.26), and he considered it to be "by the same workman." Although Freer avoided the commercial versions of decorated Satsuma ware, made for sale at international expositions, he probably appreciated the parallels between this jar's refined decoration and the Japanese and American paintings he collected.

Decoration attributed to Kano Tangen

18th century

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

American Art Association

Stoneware with cobalt pigment under clear colorless glaze

Satsuma ware, White Satsuma type

HxWxD: 23.2 x 18.7 x 13.5 cm

F1905.41

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175

West

Edo period

Kagoshima

Japan

United States

New York

New York

Sake bottle

Bottle (tokkuri)

19th century

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Matsuki Bunkyo

Stoneware with iron slip and rice-straw ash glaze

Seba ware

HxWxD: 21.8 x 13.2 x 13.2 cm

F1899.45

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144

West

Edo period

Japan

United States

Boston

Massachusetts

Sake bottle

Bottle (tokkuri)

18th-19th century

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Yamanaka and Co.

Stoneware with ash glaze

Mino or Inuyama ware

HxWxD: 24.4 x 17.1 x 17.1 cm

F1898.484

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140

West

Edo period

Japan

United States

New York

New York

Sake bottle

Bottle (tokkuri)

This long-necked sake bottle from the Edo period was purchased by Freer as part of a larger collection, the Waggaman Collection of 1905. Its previous owner, Thomas A. Waggaman, was among the founders of Catholic University in Washington, DC. On February 2, 1905, a <i>New York Times</i> article referred to sale of the Waggaman Collection and mentioned Freer as one of the purchasers, along with the author, O. Henry. This pear-shaped vessel is sometimes referred to as a "crane's neck bottle" because of its unique opening. Its coloration is dark brown, and the glaze of its clay body is flecked with an ochre yellow finish-almost as if it were sprinkled with pure gold.

1650-1710

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

American Art Association

Stoneware with iron glaze; silver rim

Karatsu ware

HxW: 23.5 x 13.4 cm

F1905.48

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35

North

Edo period

Taku

Japan

United States

New York

New York

Sake bottle

Bottle (tokkuri)

Shidoro kilns

This was one of Freer's earliest Asian ceramics purchases. He acquired it in 1893 from Tozo Takayanagi and regarded it as "very fine." His colleague Edward Sylvester Morse, the Boston scholar and collector, disagreed, however: In 1921 he dismissed it as a modern piece and "not worth a damn." In the Peacock Room in Detroit, the bottle was displayed with other dark, glossy ceramics with rich, varied surfaces.

19th century

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Tozo Takayanagi

Stoneware with ash and iron glazes

Shidoro ware

HxW: 27.5 x 14.8 cm

F1893.2

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22

North

Edo period or Meiji era

Japan

United States

New York

New York