Ohi ware incense burner in shape of a bronze vessel
date: label: Date
content: mid 19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Ohi VI Chozaemon (1815-1856)
notes: label: Description
content: Incense burner in shape of bronze vessel.
label: Description
content: Chinese design. Gold lacquer repair.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard, fine. Raku type.
label: Description
content: Glaze: luminous greenish-white; crackled.
label: Description
content: Decoration: modeled in paste.
label: Description
content: Mark. Four ideographs. On base, "Ohi", in circular frame. Ideographs read "Long life ([CHN])."
label: Provenance
content: To 1898
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1898 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1898 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1898 [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. 176, 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: Ishikawa prefecture, Japan
topic: 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: Charles Lang Freer collection
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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: F1898.515
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Earthenware with clear lead glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 12.7 x 18.4 cm (5 x 7 1/4 in)
label: Style
content: Ohi ware