Box with lid, with inscription on base dated 1755, containing set of ten plates (F1993.19.1-10)

Object Details

• Provenance

  From 1950s – 1993

  Private collection, purchased in Japan in the 1950s. [1]

  From 1993

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of a private collector. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] According to the donor, object was purchased in Japan in the 1950s.

  [2] See Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920 file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Japanese Art (May 9, 1993 to November 21, 1995)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Anonymous

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of anonymous friends of Harold P. Stern

• Type

  Container

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1700s, 1710s, 1720s, 1770s, 1780s, 1790s, 1730s, 1740s, 1750s, 1760s, 1800s, 1810s, 1820s, 1830s, 1610s, 1650s, 1640s, 1630s, 1620s, 1690s, 1840s, 1680s, 1850s, 1670s, 1860s, 1660s

• Name

  Henry, Province

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Inscriptions, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Containers