Large Toad

Object Details

• Artist

  Obaku Tokuan (active 1910-1935)

• Calligrapher

  Obaku Chokuo 黄檗直翁 (1867-1937)

• Description

  Contained in wooden box with lid, paper label with inscription.

• Signatures

  Signed Taisho tsuchi no to hitsuchi Tokuan Heidai; 1919; Taisho, Year of the Goat; Tokuan Heidai. Sealed Shokuan shi; other seals unread.

• Provenance

  To 2004

  Robert O. Muller (1911-2003), Newtown, CT, to 2004

  From 2004

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from the Estate of Robert O. Muller through Joan Mirviss, Ltd., New York, NY, in 2004

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Robert O. Muller (1911-2003)

  Estate of Robert O. Muller

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase from the Estate of Robert O. Muller — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art and the Harold P. Stern Memorial Fund

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1910s

• Name

  Muller, Robert O., Estate of Robert O. Muller

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Toads, Japanese Art, Taisho era (1912 - 1926), Kakemono

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings