Object Details
- Artist
- Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)
- Kyoto workshop, Kenzan style
- Description
- Lid for fan-shaped incense box (kogo), with later wooden base.
- Clay: stoneware, hard, gray.
- Glaze: transparent, appearing grayish-cream, tinged with blue; crackled; brownish-black on edges.
- Decoration: in white slip and iron and cobalt under pigments under glaze and gold and red enamels over glaze. Blossoming cherry trees by stream.
- Inscription on the base.
- Signatures
- Signature: Kenzan, in rectangular frame, written in iron pigment under glaze on back of lid.
- Inscriptions
- Contains inscription on the base.
- Provenance
- To 1902
- Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1902 [1]
- From 1902 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1902 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]
- Notes:
- [1]
- See Original Pottery List, L. 1195, 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.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- The Potter's Brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese Ceramics (December 9, 2001 to October 27, 2002)
- Fans (May 18, 1980 to October 13, 1981)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- mid-19th century
- Period
- Late Edo period or Meiji era
- Accession Number
- F1902.219a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Container
- Medium
- Buff clay; white slip, iron and cobalt pigments under transparent glaze, and enamels over glaze; wood replacement for missing base.
- Dimensions
- H x W: 1.4 x 8.1 cm (9/16 x 3 3/16 in)
- Origin
- Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- ceramic
- cherry tree
- Meiji era (1868 - 1912)
- water
- Late Edo period (1716 - 1868)
- cherry blossom
- river
- incense
- fan
- Japan
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1902.219a-b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye325bdd53c-fab0-4ab1-8ac6-ffa0f168acc3
