Brazier for iron kettle
date: label: Date
content: 1814
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Tokuzan (died 1837)
notes: label: Description
content: Clay: soft, grayish. Raku type.
label: Description
content: Glaze: deep green, crackled, with areas of iridescent copper and bronze. Lead glaze.
label: Description
content: Decoration: broadly incised. Two phoenixes.
label: Description
content: Signature. Inscription. Inscribed on unglazed bottom: Bunka juichi inu gogatsu/Hogean/Tokuzan [cipher].
label: Signatures
content: Signature.
label: Inscriptions
content: Inscribed on unglazed bottom: Bunka juichi inu gogatsu/Hogean/Tokuzan [cipher].
label: Provenance
content: To 1899
label: Provenance
content: Japanese Trading Company, New York to 1899 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1899 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Japanese Trading 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. 5, 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: Japanese Trading Company (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Tokyo, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: iridescence
label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: phoenix
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: F1899.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Raku-type clay with copper-green lead-silicate glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 23.2 × 32.9 cm (9 1/8 × 12 15/16 in)