Plaque with design of scholar

Object Details

• Artist

  Inoue Ryokichi

• Description

  Light gray clay. Underglaze cobalt painted decoration of scholar in bamboo grove gazing over water toward Mount Fuji as attendant prepares tea. Signature, "Ryokichi" [followed by illegible character], on back. Glassy white feldspathic glaze, coarsely crackled and flecked with brown iron spots, oxidizing orange where glaze is thin on base. Thirteen round spur marks on back.

• Signatures

  Signature, "Ryokichi" [followed by illegible character], on back.

• Provenance

  To 1895

  Rufus E. Moore, New York to 1895 [1]

  From 1895 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Rufus E. Moore in 1895 [2]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 285, 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

  Rufus E. Moore (1840-1918) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Seto, Aichi prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Furniture and Furnishing

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Moore, Rufus E.

• Place

  Aichi prefecture, Japan, Seto

• Topic

  Tea, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Scholar, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics, Sage, Seto ware, Bamboo

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Furniture, Furnishings