Object Details
- Description
- Incense-burner. Two handles. Silver cover.
- Clay: hard, dense.
- Glaze: "tortoise-shell marked"; orange splashed with black, white, and green.
- Provenance
- To 1893
- Tozo Takayanagi, New York to 1893 [1]
- From 1893 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tozo Takayanagi in 1893 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 140, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [2] See note 1.
- [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.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Takayanagi Tozo 高柳陶造 (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 19th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with lead glazes over clear glaze; silver lid
- Dimensions
- H x W (overall): 13.2 x 14.8 cm (5 3/16 x 5 13/16 in)
- Style
- Hirasa ware
- Type
- Vessel
