Medium:

Earthenware with Red Raku glaze and white slip

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 2.4 × 9 cm (15/16 × 3 9/16 in)

Style:

Raku ware, unknown workshop

Type:

Container

Origin:

Japan

Date:

19th century

Period:

Edo period or Meiji era

Description:

Circular incense box (kogo).

Clay: soft, buff-gray, Raku type.

Glaze: olive-gray, gray-white, and dull red. Reduced Red Raku glaze.

Decoration: in yellow-white, under glaze: paulownia blossoms and leaves.

Provenance:

To 1901

Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), Paris to 1901 [1]

From 1901 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Siegfried Bing, Paris in 1901

From 1920

Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 953, 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

Previous custodian or owner:

Siegfried Bing (1838-1905) (C.L. Freer source)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Topic:

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Edo period (1615 - 1868)  Search this

Meiji era (1868 - 1912)  Search this

incense  Search this

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Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1901.74a-b

Restrictions & Rights:

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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