Artist:

Style of Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743)  Search this

Kyoto workshop, Kenzan style  Search this

Medium:

Stoneware with white slip, iron and cobalt pigments under transparent glaze

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 6.7 x 13.4 cm (2 5/8 x 5 1/4 in)

Style:

Kyoto ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

Date:

mid 19th century

Period:

Edo period

Description:

Bowl (futujawan), missing lid, ovoidal; bold foot. Gold lacquer repairs.

Clay: buff stoneware, fired in reduction.

Glaze: transparent.

Decoration: in cobalt and iron, with patch of white slip, under glaze.

Signature: Kenzan, written in iron on foot.

Signatures:

Kenzan, written in iron on foot.

Provenance:

To 1899

Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1899 [1]

From 1899 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1899 [2]

From 1920

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

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 428, 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:

Parades: Freer Ceramics Installed by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott (November 4, 2006 to January 7, 2008)

The Potter's Brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese Ceramics (December 9, 2001 to October 27, 2002)

Previous custodian or owner:

Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Topic:

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Edo period (1615 - 1868)  Search this

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stoneware  Search this

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Charles Lang Freer collection  Search this

Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1899.36

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3d14be791-3654-42f4-9d52-93439d414a19

EDAN-URL:

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