Incense box in the shape of a tanuki
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period or Meiji era
notes: label: Description
content: Incense box in shape of seated tanuki with arms extended over paunch. Gold lacquer repairs.
label: Description
content: Clay: soft, reddish-brown. Raku type.
label: Description
content: Glaze: dark red-brown and black. Metallic iridescence. Raku-type lead glaze.
label: Description
content: Mark, incised on base.
label: Marks
content: 1. Mark, incised on base. Further scrutiny of the mark suggests that the bottom-most character of the inscription is not the (hi) [Jap] of Ohi [Jap] but (tsukuru) [Jap], "made by," and that it is followed by an impressed oval seal. The uppermost character also seems to contain the radical 162, [Jap].
label: Provenance
content: To 1899
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, 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] See Original Pottery List, L. 278, 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: 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: Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: iridescence
label: Topic
content: lacquer
label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Ohi ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: incense
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: earthenware
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: lacquer repair
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: F1899.64a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Container
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Earthenware with lead-silicate glaze; gold lacquer repairs
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 6.6 x 5.1 cm (2 5/8 x 2 in)
label: Style
content: Ohi ware