Transparent stoneware with iron glazes; gilding over iron slip; enamels over transparent glaze; iron pigment under glaze
Dimensions:
H x W: 35.1 x 15.3 cm (13 13/16 x 6 in)
Style:
Kyoto ware, Otowa kilns
Type:
Sculpture
Origin:
Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan
Date:
1729 (tenth month, fifteenth day)
Period:
Edo period
Description:
Clay: hard, dense, grayish.
Glaze: Figure - dark brown and translucent glazes; traces of gilding over iron wash. Pedestal - green, and gray-blue enamels over transparent glaze; brownish-black iron-glaze accents.
Inscription on pedestal.
Inscriptions:
The inscription on the bracket into which a gilt-bronze halo would have been fitted reads:
67 years 六十七才
Made by Otowa Jizaemon 音羽治左衛門作之
The more complete inscription on the shaft made to secure the image on the stand reads:
Kyoho 14th year cyclical date 享保十四年巳酉
Tenth month 15th [day] 67 years 十月十五六十七才
Made by Otowa Jizae 音羽治左衛 作之
Provenance:
Temple Kiyomizu, Kyoto [1]
To 1907
Unidentified owner, Japan, to 1907 [2]
From 1907 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased in Japan from an unidentified owner in spring of 1907 [3]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
Notes:
[1] Charles Lang Freer was told when he bought this piece that it had once been in "temple Kiyomizu, Kyoto" (see Curatorial Remark 7, L.A. Cort, 1985, in the object record).
[2] See Original Pottery List, L. 1565, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[3] See note 2.
[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.
