Artist:

Kyoto workshop, Kenzan style  Search this

Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)  Search this

Medium:

Buff clay; white slip, iron pigment under transparent glaze, and enamels over glaze; vine handle

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 6.6 × 26.3 cm (2 5/8 × 10 3/8 in)

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

Date:

mid to late 19th century

Period:

Edo period or Meiji era

Description:

Round cake dish with flattened ogival rim. Vine handle (broken in one place) attached through four holes in rim.

Clay: fine-grained, buff-colored stoneware.

Glaze: translucent, appearing grayish-fawn, tinged with pink, crackled.

Decoration: in white slip and iron brown pigment under glaze, blue, green, red and gold enamels.

Signatures:

Kenzan, in iron brown on rectangle of white slip, framed with iron brown, under clear glaze, on otherwise unglazed base.

Provenance:

To 1907

Unidentified owner, Japan, to 1907 [1]

From 1907 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased in Japan from an unidentified owner in spring 1907 [2]

From 1920

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

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1563, 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)

Previous custodian or owner:

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Topic:

ceramic  Search this

Edo period (1615 - 1868)  Search this

Meiji era (1868 - 1912)  Search this

lily  Search this

Japan  Search this

Japanese Art  Search this

Charles Lang Freer collection  Search this

Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1907.85

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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