Otowa ware standing Amida Nyorai with inscribed pedestal
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Object Details
- Artist
- Otowa Jizaemon (born 1663)
- Description
- Clay: hard, dense, grayish.
- Glaze: Figure - dark brown and translucent glazes; traces of gilding over iron wash. Pedestal - green, and gray-blue enamels over transparent glaze; brownish-black iron-glaze accents.
- Inscription on pedestal.
- Inscriptions
- The inscription on the bracket into which a gilt-bronze halo would have been fitted reads:
- 67 years 六十七才
- Made by Otowa Jizaemon 音羽治左衛門作之
- The more complete inscription on the shaft made to secure the image on the stand reads:
- Kyoho 14th year cyclical date 享保十四年巳酉
- Tenth month 15th [day] 67 years 十月十五六十七才
- Made by Otowa Jizae 音羽治左衛 作之
- Provenance
- Temple Kiyomizu, Kyoto [1]
- To 1907
- Unidentified owner, Japan, to 1907 [2]
- From 1907 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased in Japan from an unidentified owner in spring of 1907 [3]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
- Notes:
- [1] Charles Lang Freer was told when he bought this piece that it had once been in "temple Kiyomizu, Kyoto" (see Curatorial Remark 7, L.A. Cort, 1985, in the object record).
- [2] See Original Pottery List, L. 1565, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [3] See note 2.
- [4] 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
- Previous custodian or owner
- Temple Kiyomizu
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- 1729 (tenth month, fifteenth day)
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1907.87a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- Transparent stoneware with iron glazes; gilding over iron slip; enamels over transparent glaze; iron pigment under glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 35.1 x 15.3 cm (13 13/16 x 6 in)
- Style
- Kyoto ware, Otowa kilns
- 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
- enameling
- ceramic
- Buddhism
- Buddha
- Kyoto ware
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- lotus
- Amitabha Buddha
- Japan
- dharmakaya-vitarka mudra
- stoneware
- iron wash
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1907.87a-b
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3e0468b40-cf03-463f-b1fb-52c5101302bd
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