Brazier for iron kettle

Object Details

• Artist

  Tokuzan (died 1837)

• Description

  Clay: soft, grayish. Raku type.

  Glaze: deep green, crackled, with areas of iridescent copper and bronze. Lead glaze.

  Decoration: broadly incised. Two phoenixes.

  Signature. Inscription. Inscribed on unglazed bottom: Bunka juichi inu gogatsu/Hogean/Tokuzan [cipher].

• Signatures

  Signature.

• Inscriptions

  Inscribed on unglazed bottom: Bunka juichi inu gogatsu/Hogean/Tokuzan [cipher].

• Provenance

  To 1899

  Japanese Trading Company, New York to 1899 [1]

  From 1899 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Japanese Trading Company in 1899 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 5, 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

  Japanese Trading Company (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Tokyo, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Japanese Trading Company

• Place

  Tokyo, Japan

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Phoenix, Iridescence, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)