Tea-leaf storage jar with five lugs
Label Text
This seventeenth-century tea-leaf storage jar came to Freer through the New York branch of Yamanaka and Company, one of his favorite sources for East Asian ceramics. This jar, with its blue-green copper-based glaze, appears in the Peacock Room in Detroit on a shelf near La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine, where it was grouped with a diverse array of East and West Asian pots, including Southern Song tomb jars, Japanese tea wares, and iridescent Raqqa ware.
Object Name
Jar
Ware
Karatsu ware, Takeo Karatsu type
Dated
1630-1660
Period
Edo period
Medium
Stoneware with copper-tinted rice-straw-ash glaze and feldspathic glaze
Dimensions
HxW: 25.4 x 21.4 cm
Country
Japan
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Iteration
2
Shelf Number
19
Wall
North
Title
Tea-leaf storage jar with five lugs
Object Number
F1899.60
Freer Source
Yamanaka and Co.
Freer Source City
New York
Freer Source State
New York
Freer Source Country
United States
Image
http://141.217.97.109/plugins/Dropbox/files/peacock-jpg/JPEG/F1899.60.jpg
Collection
Citation
"Tea-leaf storage jar with five lugs," in The Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Accession No. F1899.60, Item #3095, https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3095 (accessed December 22, 2024).