Water jar with image of Baisaō

Detail of a pattern
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At A Glance

  • Period

    19th or early 20th century
  • Geography

    Japan
  • Material

    Stoneware with ash glaze and underglaze iron brown
  • Dimension

    H x Diam (with lid): 18.5 × 16 cm (7 5/16 × 6 5/16 in)
  • Accession Number

    F2020.4.2a-d
  • EDAN ID

    edanmdm:fsg_F2020.4.2a-d

Object Details

  • Artist

    Tomioka Tessai 富岡鉄斎 (1836-1924)
    Kiyomizu Rokubei IV 清水六兵衛 (1848-1920)
  • Description

    Kyoto ware. Box.
  • Provenance

    ? to 2015
    Oranda jin, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands [1]
    From 2015 to 2020
    Mary and Cheney Cowles, Seattle, WA, purchased from Oranda jin on April 2, 2015 [2]
    From 2020
    Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, Seattle, WA [3]
    Notes:
    [1] Per information provided by the Cowles. See Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection 2020 Gift List for the Freer/Sackler, object file, Collections Management Office.
    [2] See note 1.
    [3] See Deed of Gift, object file, Collections Management Office.
  • Collection

    Freer Gallery of Art Collection
  • Exhibition History

    Imagined Neighbors: Japanese Visions of China, 1680–1980 (March 16 to September 3, 2024)
    Meeting Tessai: Modern Japanese Art from the Cowles Collection (August 13, 2022 to January 28, 2024)
    Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art (October 13, 2018 to January 13, 2019)
  • Previous custodian or owner

    Cheney Cowles
    Mary Cowles
    Oranda jin
  • Origin

    Japan
  • Credit Line

    The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles
  • Type

    Vessel
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