Two cups decorated respectively with pine and plum

Object Details

• Artist

  Style of Ogata Korin 尾形光琳 (1658-1716)

• Marks

  Two seals. Small seal of Korin. Round seal of Hoshuku.

• Label

  This quick ink sketch shows designs for the decoration of two cylindrical tea bowls with motifs of pine and plum. Both motifs were appropriate for use during the winter months. The sketch was executed in the style of the painter Ogata Ko­rin (1658–1716), whose younger brother was the influential Kyoto potter Ogata Kenzan (1663–1743).

• Provenance

  To 1898

  Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1898 [1]

  From 1898 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1898 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Kakemono List, S.I. 114, pg. 24, 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

• Exhibition History

  Tea Ceramics after Koetsu (June 27, 2015 to January 3, 2016)

  Bold and Beautiful: Rinpa in Japanese Art (June 28, 2015 to January 3, 2016)

  Tea Bowls in Bloom: Botanical Decoration on Tea Ceremony Ceramics (February 3 to July 15, 2007)

  The Potter's Brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese Ceramics (December 9, 2001 to October 27, 2002)

  More Than Flowers: Sources of Tradition in Japanese Painting (September 2, 2001 to November 24, 2002)

  Boxed In: Japanese Ceramics and Their Storage Boxes (September 23, 1982 to February 17, 1983)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Painting

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Matsuki, Bunkio

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Pine tree, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Kakemono, Plum blossom

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings