Kyoto ware incense box in shape of crouching rabbit
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Object Details
- Artist
- Seal of Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Provenance
- To 1904
- Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1904 [1]
- From 1904 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1904 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Pottery List, L. 1308, 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.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- mid 17th century or later
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1904.203a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Container
- Medium
- Stoneware with enamels over clear glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 8.2 x 7.3 x 5.5 cm (3 1/4 x 2 7/8 x 2 3/16 in)
- Style
- Kyoto ware
- Origin
- Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- Kyoto ware
- Omuro ware
- rabbit
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- incense
- Japan
- stoneware
- Japanese Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1904.203a-b
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye30039184b-70e4-4137-a195-75167091d187
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