Box
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)
notes: label: Label
content: The pleasing visual contrast achieved by applying pigment-based designs and drawings to an unadorned natural surface--silk, paper, clay, or wood--expresses an important aspect of Japanese aesthetic sensibility: the celebration of art's material foundations.
label: Label
content: Ironically, at the precise moment when Ogata Kenzan and like-minded artists were constructing simple and direct forms with apparent materials, Ogawa Ritsuo (1663-1747) was manipulating lacquer boxes into the appearance of weathered wood. From the eighteenth century onward these different approaches of simplicity and ingenious artifice would mark the production of Japanese art and craft.
label: Provenance
content: To 1907
label: Provenance
content: Unidentified owner, Japan, to 1907 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1907 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased in Japan from an unidentified owner in 1907 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 40, pg. 25, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [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.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: More Than Flowers: Sources of Tradition in Japanese Painting (September 2, 2001 to November 24, 2002)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: wood
label: Topic
content: flower
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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content: Google Arts & Culture
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1907.104a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Container
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Wood, mineral pigment, and gesso
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 36.5 x 26.7 x 10.9 cm (14 3/8 x 10 1/2 x 4 5/16 in)