Hexagonal incense box with design of crane

Object Details

• Description

  Incense-box, hexagonal, with cover.

  Clay: dense, hard.

  Glaze: brilliant turquoise-blue, crackled.

  Decoration: flying crane, on cover, in bold relief.

• Marks

  Kairakuen sei [Jpn], without frame, impressed on base.

• Provenance

  To 1899

  Carl Edelheim (1844-1899), Philadelphia, to 1899 [1]

  From 1900 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at the sale of the Carl Edelheim Collection, American Art Association, New York, NY, March 1900 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 259, 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

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

  Garden Potteries and Official Kilns: Clan-Sponsored Ceramics in the Edo Period (January 16, 1986 to November 3, 1986)

  Japanese Ceramics from Past to Present (February 18, 1983 to February 16, 1984)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Carl Edelheim (1844-1899)

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Wakayama, Wakayama prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Container

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Name

  American Art Association, Freer, Charles Lang, Edelheim, Carl

• Place

  Wakayama, Japan, Wakayama prefecture

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Porcelain, Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Incense, Japanese Art, Kairakuen ware, Ceramics, Crane

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Containers