Vase, with lacquer lid for use as tea ceremony water jar

Vase or tea-ceremony water jar (mizusashi)

1596-1615

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Matsuki Bunkyo

Stoneware with rice-straw-ash and iron glazes

Karatsu ware, Chosen Karatsu type

HxW: 22.1 x 11.9 cm

F1905.274a-b

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West

Momoyama period

Imari city

Japan

United States

Boston

Massachusetts

Tea ceremony water jar

Tea ceremony water jar (mizusashi)

Freer purchased this tea ceremony water jar, with a clear crackled glaze suffused with opalescent blue, in 1900 from the Fifth Avenue shop of Yamanka and Company. Although its origins were uncertain in Freer's day, it is now dated to the Momoyama period, in the early seventeenth. It shows a distinctly Korean influence: In the aftermath of Japan's two invasions of the Korean peninsula in the 1590s, sometimes known as the "Pottery Wars," hundreds of Korean potters were resettled within warrior domains in southern Japan. The kilns that they established became important sources of tea-ceremony ceramics and tablewares. Early southern wares like this reflect the shapes, glazes, and decorative techniques of their Korean prototypes.

1602-1615

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Yamanaka and Co.

Stoneware with wood-ash and rice-straw-ash glaze

Agano ware

HxWxD: 15.6 x 21.2 x 21.2 cm

F1900.4a-b

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North

Momoyama period

Japan

United States

New York

New York