Ember pot with relief designs of pine and plum

Square container for live charcoal (hiire).
Clay: fine-grained buff stoneware.
Glaze: transparent.
Decoration: pine and plum, in relief in unglazed panels on two sides; blossoming plum branches in blue and brown, under glaze, in border-areas; iron brown under glaze on rim.

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Maker(s)
Artist: Style of Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743) Kyoto workshop, Kenzan style
Historical period(s)
Edo period, late 18th-early 19th century
Medium
Buff clay; iron and cobalt pigments under transparent glaze
Dimensions
H x W: 8.9 x 9.7 cm (3 1/2 x 3 13/16 in)
Geography
Japan, Kyoto prefecture, Kyoto
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art
Accession Number
F1911.401
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Ceramic, Vessel
Type

Ember pot (hiire)

Keywords
Edo period (1615 - 1868), Japan, pine tree, plum blossom
Provenance

1911
Y. Fujita and Company, Kyoto 1911 [1]

From 1911 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Y. Fujita and Company, Kyoto in 1911 [2]

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

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2188, 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.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Y. Fujita and Company (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919

Description

Square container for live charcoal (hiire).
Clay: fine-grained buff stoneware.
Glaze: transparent.
Decoration: pine and plum, in relief in unglazed panels on two sides; blossoming plum branches in blue and brown, under glaze, in border-areas; iron brown under glaze on rim.

Inscription(s)

Two inscriptions, one including signature, on two alternating unglazed panels

Published References
  • Richard L. Wilson. The Potter's Brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese Ceramics. Exh. cat. Washington. cat. 14, p. 75.
Collection Area(s)
Japanese Art
Web Resources
Google Cultural Institute
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