Somayama (Otowa) ware Incense box in the form of a seated dragon

Object Details

• Description

  Clay: buff stoneware fired reddish brown.

  Glaze: mottled blue-green flowing over brown.

• Signatures

  Signature incised on base: Seiko セイコー and (?) Ei エイ.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  The Idea of China in Japan: The Tea Ceremony in Japan (December 19, 1999 to June 11, 2000)

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

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

• Origin

  Shiga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Container

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• Place

  Shiga prefecture, Japan

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Incense, Japanese Art, Somayama (Otawa) ware, Ceramics, Dragon

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Containers