Serving bowl with Kenzan style decoration, unknown Kyoto workshop
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)
notes: label: Description
content: Tea-bowl, ovoidal; bold foot. Gold lacquer repair.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard.
label: Description
content: Glaze: brown, with overflow of pinkish gray-white; crackled.
label: Description
content: Decoration: in blue and brown, under glaze.
label: Label
content: The shape, glaze, and dark clay body of this bowl echo early Karatsu ware. The decoration of pine boughs--rendered in iron and cobalt against “clouds” of white slip (clay solution)--was, however, inspired by designs of the Kyoto potter Ogata Kenzan (1663–1743). Hybrid “quotations” from historical ceramic modes were common in Kyoto workshops in the nineteenth century.
label: Provenance
content: To 1899
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, to 1899 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1899 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1899 [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] Undated folder sheet note. Also see Original Pottery List, L. 630, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The majority of Charles Lang Freer’s purchases from Yamanaka & Company were made at its New York branch. Yamanaka & Company maintained branch offices, at various times, in Boston, Chicago, London, Peking, Shanghai, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto. During the summer, the company also maintained seasonal locations in Newport, Bar Harbor, and Atlantic City.
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: Tea Bowls in Bloom: Botanical Decoration on Tea Ceremony Ceramics (February 3 to July 15, 2007)
label: Exhibition History
content: Korean Influences on Japanese Slip-Decorated Ceramics (February 16, 1984 to November 9, 1984)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Kyoto, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Kyoto ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: tea
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: F1899.14
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with white slip, cobalt and iron pigments under feldspathic glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 7.4 x 16.7 cm (2 15/16 x 6 9/16 in)
label: Style
content: Kyoto ware