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Ember pot with design of Four Admirers

Artist:: Style of Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743) Search this; Kyoto workshop, Kenzan style Search this

Medium:: Gray-buff clay with white slip and iron pigment under transparent glaze

Description:: Container for live coals (hiire); square; bottom cracked.; Clay: stoneware: hard, dense, grayish.; Glaze: white slip under clear glaze.; Decoration: in mixed cobalt and iron pigment.

Signatures:: On painting: "Hokkyo Korin ga [Jpn]"; On base of pot: "Kenzan [Jpn]"

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. 1193, 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.

Exhibition History:: Bold and Beautiful: Rinpa in Japanese Art (June 28, 2015 to January 3, 2016); The Potter's Brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese Ceramics (December 9, 2001 to October 27, 2002); Ceramics by Ogata Kenzan (October 9, 1980 to October 30, 1980)