Powdered tea container with designs of standing cranes
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Object Details
- Artist
- Style of Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743)
- Kyoto workshop
- Previous custodian or owner
- Yamanaka and Co. (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Provenance
- To 1898
- Yamanaka & Company, to 1898 [1]
- From 1898 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1898 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 730, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The majority of Charles Lang Freer’s purchases from Yamanaka & Company were made at its New York branch. Yamanaka & Company maintained branch offices, at various times, in Boston, Chicago, London, Peking, Shanghai, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto. During the summer, the company also maintained seasonal locations in Newport, Bar Harbor, and Atlantic City.
- [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
- late 19th century
- Period
- Meiji era
- Accession Number
- F1898.468a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Ceramic
- Vessel
- Medium
- Buff clay; white slip, iron pigment under transparent glaze, ivory lid.
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 8.2 × 6 cm (3 1/4 × 2 3/8 in)
- Origin
- Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan
- Related Online Resources
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- crane
- Meiji era (1868 - 1912)
- tea
- Japan
- Japanese Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1898.468a-b
- Usage of Metadata (Object Detail Text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye36cb201f7-bfec-407e-8f20-e7dd834ee3a1
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