Kenzan style desk screen with design of mountain retreat

Object Details

• Artist

  Imitation of Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743)

  Kyoto workshop

• Description

  Inkstone screen (kenbyo [Jpn]). Three-fold with four spool-feet.

  Clay: hard, grayish.

  Glaze: creamy and gray-white, crackled. On back grayish-green, crackled.

  Decoration: black, under glaze. Frame in green, yellow, red, black, and green.

• Signatures

  Signature

• Inscriptions

  The poem inscribed on the back of the screen is "Fisherman's Hut" by Li Dongyang (1447-1516)

• Provenance

  To 1897

  Rufus E. Moore, New York to 1897 [1]

  From 1897 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Rufus E. Moore in 1897 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 33, 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

  The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing)

  The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019)

  The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)

  The Potter's Brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese Ceramics (December 9, 2001 to October 27, 2002)

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Tool and Equipment

• On View

  Freer Gallery 12: The Peacock Room Comes to America

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1890s, 1870s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Moore, Rufus E.

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan, Kyoto prefecture

• Topic

  Mountains, Charles Lang Freer collection, Landscapes, Art, Japanese Art, Ceramics, Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Tools and equipment

• On View

  Yes