Kenzan-style serving bowl with design of lion-dog and peony

Object Details

• Artist

  Style of Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743)

  Kyoto workshop, Kenzan style

• Description

  Bowl for sweets (kashibachi 菓子鉢), large, deep, ovoidal. Gold lacquer repairs.

  Clay: hard, grayish.

  Glaze: white slip, with pinkish-fawn cloudings; lightly crackled transparent glaze

  Decoration: in iron oxide, under glaze

• Signatures

  Kenzan

• Provenance

  Tokyo School of Fine Arts [1]

  To 1898

  Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1898 [2]

  From 1898 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1898 [3]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

  Notes:

  [1] See Curatorial 6, H.E. Buckman, 1964, in the object record.

  [2] See Original Pottery List, L. 446, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

  [3] See note 1.

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Tokyo School of Fine Arts

  Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Matsuki, Bunkio, Tokyo School of Fine Arts

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan, Kyoto prefecture

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Peony, Kyoto ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)