Incense box in the shape of a quail, one of a pair

Object Details

• Artist

  Mochizuki Hanzan (1743-1790?)

• Description

  Clay: hard, dense.

  Glaze: lower bodies in dark bronze touched with silver; upper bodies in bright brown mottled with gray. Insides - gilded.

  Seal on the bottom.

• Marks

  Contains seal.

• Provenance

  To 1900

  K. Sano, Tokyo, to 1900 [1]

  From 1900 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from K. Sano through Edward G. Getz in 1900 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] According to Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record, this object was brought to America by K. Sano, and purchased [by Charles Lang Freer] through Ed. G. Getz. See Original Pottery List, L. 280, 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

  Feathered Ink (August 27, 2022 to February 20, 2023)

  Arts of Japan: Edo Aviary and Poetic License (February 2 to August 4, 2013)

  Japanese Art—Autumn Voices (October 14, 1981 to December 16, 1981)

  Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons in Japanese Art (September 14, 1977 to April 8, 1978)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mr. K. Sano (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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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Sano, K.

• Place

  Tokyo, Japan

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Porcelain, Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Incense, Japanese Art, Lacquer, Ceramics, Quail

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Containers