Lidded bowl with design of iris
date: label: Date
content: mid-18th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Ogata Ihachi (Kyoto Kenzan II) (active 1720-1760)
notes: label: Description
content: Lidded bowl (futajawan)
label: Description
content: Clay: earthenware; dense, sonorous, grayish.
label: Description
content: Glaze: rich cream, closely crackled; stained with fawn. Lead glaze.
label: Description
content: Decoration: in green and blue enamels, under glaze. Design of iris.
label: Description
content: One signature on bowl, one signature on lid.
label: Signatures
content: On bowl: Kenzan. On lid: Based on painting by Korin; Kenzan (with ji cipher).
label: Label
content: This is a lidded bowl for serving steamed food; the lid is designed so that steam condensing on its underside drips out of the vessel rather than into it. True to the inscription, the decoration is based on a Korin design, once again his interpretation of the popular "eight bridges" episode in the ninth chapter of the classical Tales of Ise.
label: Label
content: The execution clearly relates to F1896.56, and they are probably part of the same batch.
label: Provenance
content: To 1899
label: Provenance
content: Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1899 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1899 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki 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. 286, 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: Rinpa: Creativity Across Time and Space (October 1, 2022 to April 2, 2023)
label: Exhibition History
content: Bold and Beautiful: Rinpa in Japanese Art (June 28, 2015 to January 3, 2016)
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: 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: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: iris
label: Topic
content: Tales of Ise
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: F1899.46a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: White clay; pigments, enamels, and iron pigment under transparent lead glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 8.8 × 13.3 cm (3 7/16 × 5 1/4 in)