Tea bowl, Totoya type
Label Text
This comparatively large bowl with straight flaring sides dates to the sixteenth or seventeenth century and was probably made by a Korean potter working in the Karatsu area of Japan. (Karatsu had a long history as a port of trade with both Korean and China.) Freer purchased the piece from Yamanaka and Company in New York in 1898. Ten years later, he displayed it on the mantel of the Peacock Room with a number of other tea bowls acquired from the same dealer.
Object Name
Tea bowl
Dated
late 16th-early 17th century
Period
Joseon period
Medium
Stoneware with brushed-slip decoration under feldspathic glaze
Dimensions
HxW: 7.0 x 17.0 cm
Country
Korea
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Iteration
2
Shelf Number
30
Wall
North
Title
Tea bowl, Totoya type
Object Number
F1898.87
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/F1898.87.jpg
Collection
Citation
"Tea bowl, Totoya type," in The Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Accession No. F1898.87, Item #3110, https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3110 (accessed November 21, 2024).
