H x W x D: 2.7 x 5.6 x 7.8 cm (1 1/16 x 2 3/16 x 3 1/16 in)
Style:
Ofuke ware
Type:
Container
Origin:
Owari Tokugawa garden kiln, Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, Japan
Date:
1840-1860
Period:
Edo period
Description:
Buff clay, flushing orange where glaze is thick or wiped off. Incised and modeled details. Yellow ash glaze, crackled.
Mark. Cipher (kao) written in clear brown lacquer on underside of lid.
Inscriptions:
Inside the lid is a cipher written in clear amber lacquer. The cipher has not been identified.
Provenance:
To 1902
Samuel Colman (1832-1920), New York, NY, and Newport, RI, to 1902 [1]
From 1902 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at the sale of the Samuel Colman Collection, American Art Association, New York, March 19-22, 1902 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1154, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Samuel Colman was collecting Asian objects by at least 1880 (see Curatorial Remark 10, Louise Cort, April 20, 2007, in the object record).
[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:
Freer: A Taste for Japanese Art (July 1, 2006 to January 1, 2007)
Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons in Japanese Art (September 14, 1977 to April 8, 1978)
Previous custodian or owner:
Samuel Colman (1832-1920)
American Art Association (established 1883) (C.L. Freer source)
