Incense container with design of Cherry River

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Object Details

Artist

Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形乾山 (1663-1743)

Kyoto workshop, Kenzan style

Description

Lid for fan-shaped incense box (kogo), with later wooden base.

Clay: stoneware, hard, gray.

Glaze: transparent, appearing grayish-cream, tinged with blue; crackled; brownish-black on edges.

Decoration: in white slip and iron and cobalt under pigments under glaze and gold and red enamels over glaze. Blossoming cherry trees by stream.

Inscription on the base.

Signatures

Signature: Kenzan, in rectangular frame, written in iron pigment under glaze on back of lid.

Inscriptions

Contains inscription on the base.

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. 1195, 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)

Fans (May 18, 1980 to October 13, 1981)

Previous custodian or owner

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

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Date

mid-19th century

Period

Late Edo period or Meiji era

Accession Number

F1902.219a-b

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

Container

Medium

Buff clay; white slip, iron and cobalt pigments under transparent glaze, and enamels over glaze; wood replacement for missing base.

Dimensions

H x W: 1.4 x 8.1 cm (9/16 x 3 3/16 in)

Origin

Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

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Data Source

National Museum of Asian Art

Topic

ceramic

cherry tree

Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

water

Late Edo period (1716 - 1868)

cherry blossom

river

incense

fan

Japan

Japanese Art

Charles Lang Freer collection

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