Peony
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Copy after Suzuki Kiitsu 鈴木其一 (1796-1858)
notes: label: Label
content: The unusual shape and reliatively small size of the folding fan format offered a special challenge to creative artists. Compositions that would otherwise appear quite ordinary achieve a daring originality within the slender curved format. At the same time, the ready availability of fans made it possible for ordinary artists to mass produce and even to forge works, and to append spurious signatures and seals of the great masters. This is a later copy of a work by Suzuki Kiitsu (1796-1858).
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 Japanese Paintings, Prints, Drawings, and Reproductions Reserved List, R. 5721, pg. 4, 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: Japanese Ceramics from Past to Present (February 18, 1983 to February 16, 1984)
label: Exhibition History
content: Fans (May 18, 1980 to October 13, 1981)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: peony
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: F1907.656
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Ink and color on gold-leafed paper
label: Dimensions
content: H (overall): 54.8 cm (21 9/16 in)