Water jar with image of Baisaō
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Usage Conditions ApplyAt A Glance
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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
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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 2015Oranda jin, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands [1]From 2015 to 2020Mary and Cheney Cowles, Seattle, WA, purchased from Oranda jin on April 2, 2015 [2]From 2020Freer 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 CowlesMary CowlesOranda jin -
Origin
Japan -
Credit Line
The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles -
Type
Vessel -
Restrictions and Rights
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