Serving dish
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Kiyomizu Rokubei II (1777-1847)
notes: label: Description
content: Dish, flaring, shallow, circular; heavily notched foot.
label: Description
content: Clay: dense, gray.
label: Description
content: Glaze: rich, greenish-gray over red-brown wash.
label: Description
content: Decoration: in brown, green, and thick white glaze, under glaze. Pine boughs in brown with spattered-slip "snow" (copies Kenzan idea).
label: Marks
content: Character kiyo [Jpn] inside double hexagon.
label: Label
content: The Kiyomizu Rokubei workshop took its name from its location in the Kiyomizu district of eastern Kyoto long known for pottery production. This large plate borrows its decor from a bowl by the early 18th-century potter Ogata Kenzan. Pine boughs are rendered in broad strokes of underglaze iron, while white slip spattered over the surface becomes drifting snow. Purposefully rustic in form, the plate conveys a warmth and sturdiness that offset its wintry imagery.
label: Provenance
content: To 1896
label: Provenance
content: Rufus E. Moore, New York to 1896 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1896 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Rufus E. Moore in 1896 [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 Pottery List, L. 202, 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: The Arts of Japan (July 14, 2012 to January 13, 2013)
label: Exhibition History
content: Seasons: Arts of Japan (February 5, 2011 to January 13, 2013)
label: Exhibition History
content: Kyoto Ceramics (November 9, 1984 to April 25, 1985)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Rufus E. Moore (1840-1918) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Gojozaka, Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: pine tree
label: Topic
content: winter
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: snow
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
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: F1896.52
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with white slip and iron pigment under feldspathic glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 6.3 x 27.7 cm (2 1/2 x 10 7/8 in)