Incense burner
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Incense-burner. Two handles. Silver cover.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard, dense.
label: Description
content: Glaze: "tortoise-shell marked"; orange splashed with black, white, and green.
label: Provenance
content: To 1893
label: Provenance
content: Tozo Takayanagi, New York to 1893 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1893 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tozo Takayanagi in 1893 [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. 140, 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: Takayanagi Tozo 高柳陶造 (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Hirasa kilns, Yamauchi, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Satsuma ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: incense
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
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: F1893.31a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with lead glazes over clear glaze; silver lid
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (overall): 13.2 x 14.8 cm (5 3/16 x 5 13/16 in)
label: Style
content: Hirasa ware