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Tea bowl with design of cherry blossoms

Object Details

Previous custodian or owner
Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
Provenance
To 1906
Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1906 [1]
From 1906 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1906 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1487, 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.
Data Source
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Artist
Style of Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743)
Date
Early to mid-19th century
Period
Edo period
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Medium
Buff clay with white slip, iron pigment, and enamels under transparent lead glaze
Dimensions
H x Diam: 8.3 × 11.3 cm (3 1/4 × 4 7/16 in)
Type
Ceramic
Vessel

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