Kyoto ware seated figure of Otafuku

Object Details

• Artist

  Hozan Kuman

• Description

  Clay: dense, buff. Earthenware. Hollow molded figure with sculpted details.

  Glaze: hair, black; flesh, cream and brown; robe, black/white and red. All paints, not glaze; applied over white priming.

  Mark: impressed on base.

• Marks

  Mark: Hozan Kuman 寳山九萬, impressed on base.

• Provenance

  To 1906

  Spier Collection, to 1906 [1]

  From 1906 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), puchased from the Spier Collection in 1906 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 218, 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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Julius Spier (1848-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Awata, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Sculpture

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Spier, Julius

• Place

  Awata, Japan, Kyoto prefecture

• Topic

  Otafuku, Art, Kyoto ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Pottery, Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Sculpture