Object Details
- Description
- Tea bowl, cylindrical, low foot.
- Clay: low-fired earthenware.
- Glaze: Black Raku; orange peel surface.
- Decoration: incised through white slip, details in cobalt pigment.
- Signatures
- "Kenzan" incised through white slip in panel on base.
- Provenance
- To 1902
- Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1902 [1]
- From 1902 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1902 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]
- Notes:
- [1]
- See Original Pottery List, L. 1117, 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
- Exhibition History
- Tea Ceramics after Koetsu (June 27, 2015 to January 3, 2016)
- Bold and Beautiful: Rinpa in Japanese Art (June 28, 2015 to January 3, 2016)
- Japanese Arts in the Edo Period: 1615-1868, part 2 (March 8 to October 19, 2008)
- Japanese Arts in the Edo Period: 1615-1868, part 1 (August 18, 2007 to February 24, 2008)
- The Potter's Brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese Ceramics (December 9, 2001 to October 27, 2002)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Artist
- Ogata Ihachi (Kyoto Kenzan II) (active 1720-1760)
- Date
- mid-18th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Earthenware with Black Raku glaze, white slip, iron and cobalt pigments under clear lead glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 7.2 × 9 cm (2 13/16 × 3 9/16 in)
- Type
- Vessel
