Kenzan-style serving bowl with design of lion-dog and peony
date: label: Date
content: early to mid-19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)
label: Artist
content: Kyoto workshop, Kenzan style
notes: label: Description
content: Bowl for sweets (kashibachi 菓子鉢), large, deep, ovoidal. Gold lacquer repairs.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard, grayish.
label: Description
content: Glaze: white slip, with pinkish-fawn cloudings; lightly crackled transparent glaze
label: Description
content: Decoration: in iron oxide, under glaze
label: Signatures
content: Kenzan
label: Provenance
content: Tokyo School of Fine Arts [1]
label: Provenance
content: To 1898
label: Provenance
content: Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1898 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1898 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1898 [3]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Curatorial 6, H.E. Buckman, 1964, in the object record.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See Original Pottery List, L. 446, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [4] 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 Potter's Brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese Ceramics (December 9, 2001 to October 27, 2002)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Tokyo School of Fine Arts
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: peony
label: Topic
content: Kyoto ware
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: 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: F1898.445a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brown-gray clay with white slip and iron pigment under transparent glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 11 × 22.8 cm (4 5/16 × 9 in)
label: Style
content: Kyoto ware