- Provenance
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To 1901
Japanese Trading Company, New York to 1901 [1]From 1901 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Japanese Trading Company in 1901 [2]From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 976, 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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Japanese Trading Company (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
- Label
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In formal tea gatherings, a ladle stand holds the bamboo water ladle and the iron tongs used for arranging charcoal in the hearth or brazier. In 1839, Eiraku Hozen made thirty earthenware replicas of a Chinese bronze ladle stand once owned by the tea master Sen no Rikyu (1522-1591), to be distributed as gifts commemorating the seventieth birthday of Hozen's father. This may be a test piece for that project, in which burnished and smoke-blackened earthenware simulated the patina of bronze.
- Collection Area(s)
- Japanese Art
- Web Resources
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