Artist:

Style of Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743)  Search this

Kyoto workshop, Kenzan style  Search this

Medium:

Brown-gray clay with white slip and iron pigment under transparent glaze

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 11 × 22.8 cm (4 5/16 × 9 in)

Style:

Kyoto ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

Date:

early to mid-19th century

Period:

Edo period

Description:

Bowl for sweets (kashibachi [Jpn]), large, deep, ovoidal. Gold lacquer repairs.

Clay: hard, grayish.

Glaze: white slip, with pinkish-fawn cloudings; lightly crackled transparent glaze

Decoration: in iron oxide, under glaze

Signatures:

Kenzan

Provenance:

Tokyo School of Fine Arts [1]

To 1898

Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1898 [2]

From 1898 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1898 [3]

From 1920

Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

Notes:

[1] See Curatorial 6, H.E. Buckman, 1964, in the object record.

[2] See Original Pottery List, L. 446, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

[3] See note 1.

[4] 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)

Previous custodian or owner:

Tokyo School of Fine Arts

Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Topic:

ceramic  Search this

peony  Search this

Kyoto ware  Search this

Edo period (1615 - 1868)  Search this

Japan  Search this

Japanese Art  Search this

Charles Lang Freer collection  Search this

Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1898.445a-b

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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