Covered box

Object Details

• Artist

  Koren (active ca. 1878-1885)

• Description

  Box, circular. Pottery cover; piece broken. Modeled by hand.

  Clay: soft, light-weight.

  Glaze: thin orange-brown wash.

  Decoration: grape-vine modeled in relief. Inscription. Seal.

• Inscriptions

  Koren joshi tsukuru [square seal].

• Provenance

  To 1896

  Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896), Paris, to 1896 [1]

  To 1899

  Carl Edelheim (1844-1899), Philadelphia, to 1899 [2]

  From 1900 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at the sale of the Carl Edelheim Collection, American Art Association, New York, NY, in March 1900, no. 85 [3]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] The sale of the de Goncourt Collection of Asian objects occurred March 8–13, 1897. According to Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record, this particular object was no. 290 within the de Goncourt Collection sale, and was sold on March 9, 1897.

  [2] See Original Pottery List, L. 258, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

  [3] See note 2.

  [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

  Japanese Art of the Meiji Era (September 20, 1997 to April 26, 1998)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896)

  Carl Edelheim (1844-1899)

  American Art Association (established 1883) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Tokyo, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Container

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1880s, 1870s

• Name

  American Art Association, Freer, Charles Lang, de Goncourt, Edmond, Edelheim, Carl

• Place

  Tokyo, Japan

• Topic

  Art, Japanese Art, Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Containers