Rose mallow
date: label: Date
content: Probably 19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Style of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)
notes: label: Label
content: This small painting came from a group of thirty-seven "plant studies" attributed to Kenzan and formerly owned by the French printer Charles Gillot (1853-1903), whose large collection of Japanese art also included Kenzan pottery. The thick, clay-impregnated paper used for this painting suggests that it and the other "studies" were cut out of a large, flat painting such as a screen or sliding-door panel, which had become too damaged to be repaired.
label: Provenance
content: To 1903
label: Provenance
content: Charles Gillot (1853-1903), Paris, to 1903 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1904 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from the sale of the Charles Gillot Collection, Durand-Ruel Gallery, Paris, through Yamanaka Sadajiro (of Yamanaka & Company), in 1904 [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 Panel List, pg. 10, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] After his death in 1903, a sale of Asian art belonging to French artist Charles Gillot took place in February 1904 at the Durand-Ruel Gallery in Paris. Yamanaka Sadajiro (of Yamanaka & Company) attended the sale and annotated the sales catalogue (which is now in the Freer and Sackler Library) on Charles Lang Freer's behalf (see Curatorial Remark 5, Louise Cort, July 11, 2001, in the object record). Also, 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: The Potter's Brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese Ceramics (December 9, 2001 to October 27, 2002)
label: Exhibition History
content: More Than Flowers: Sources of Tradition in Japanese Painting (September 2, 2001 to November 24, 2002)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Gillot (1853-1903) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: plant
label: Topic
content: flower
label: Topic
content: rose
label: Topic
content: hibiscus
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: F1904.32
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Ink, mineral pigments, and gold on clay-loaded paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 23.4 × 16 cm (9 3/16 × 6 5/16 in)