Box with fitted cover

Object Details

• Provenance

  To 1903

  Charles Gillot (1853-1903), Paris, to 1903 [1]

  From 1904 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from the sale of the Charles Gillot Collection, Durand-Ruel Gallery, Paris, through Yamanaka Sadajiro (of Yamanaka & Company), in 1904 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See S.I. 8, Original Miscellaneous List, pg. 17, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

  [2] After his death in 1903, a sale of Asian art belonging to French artist Charles Gillot took place in February 1904 at the Durand-Ruel Gallery in Paris. Yamanaka Sadajiro (of Yamanaka and Co.) attended the sale and annotated the sales catalogue (which is now in the Freer and Sackler Library) on Charles Lang Freer's behalf (see Curatorial Remark 8, Louise Cort, July 11, 2001, in the object record). Also, 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

  The Power to See Beauty (October 14, 2017 to September 6, 2022)

  The Arts of Japan (July 14, 2012 to January 13, 2013)

  Seasons: Arts of Japan (February 5, 2011 to January 13, 2013)

  East of Eden: Gardens in Asian Art (February 24 to May 13, 2007)

  Freer: A Taste for Japanese Art (July 1, 2006 to January 1, 2007)

  Japanese Art in the Age of Koetsu (June 6, 1998 to February 15, 1999)

  Japanese Art (May 9, 1993 to June 27, 1994)

  Studies in Connoisseurship 1923-1983 (September 23, 1983 to March 1, 1984)

  Japanese and Chinese Lacquer (September 22, 1982 to June 30, 1983)

  Japanese Lacquer (18 May 1980 to 15 June 1980)

  Rimpa Screens (October 9, 1980 to December 21, 1981)

  Japanese Lacquer (April 16, 1979 to October 8, 1980)

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

  Chinese and Japanese Art--Lacquer and Paintings (August 18, 1967 to October 14, 1969)

  Japanese Art, Galleries 3, 4, and 5 (January 1, 1963 to September 16, 1970)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Charles Gillot (1853-1903) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Container

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Name

  Gillot, Charles, Freer, Charles Lang

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Inlay (process), Noh, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Lacquer, Masks, Plum blossom

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Containers