Antique Japanese Kyoto Ceramic Lidded Bowl by Ogata Ihachi Ogata Kenzan II 1700s
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Type: Lidded Food Serving Bowl
Material: Ceramic Pottery
Age: 1720-1760, Edo Period (1603-1868)
Origin/Maker: Ogata Ihachi (Ogata Kenzan II aka Kyoto Kenzan II), Kyoto, Japan. Maker's mark on side and on lid. Nearly identical example in the book "The Potter's Brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese Ceramics" by Richard L. Wilson with the following description:
30] LIDDED BOWL WITH DESIGN OF IRIS BY OGATA IHACHI (KYOTO KENZAN II, ACT. CA. 1720-1760) Japan, Edo period, mid-18th century Acquired from Matsuki Bunkio ($38); original attribution: "Kenzan." Morse attribution: "Good piece." 8.8 x 13.3 Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1899.46 Fine-grained white clay. Lid and vessel thrown on potter's wheel. Painted decoration of iris detail on the exterior median, outside and inside of lid in blue and two tones of green underglaze enamels; inscription/signature reading "Körin ga [o] mosha [suru], Kenzan" (copying a Körin painting, [signed] Kenzan), with "ji"-shaped cipher, in underglaze iron. Additional underglaze iron "Kenzan" signature on exterior median. Overall application of lead glaze; low-temperature firing. Chip on rim of lid, repaired.
7466 This is a lidded bowl for serving steamed food; the lid is designed so that steam condensing on its underside drips out of the vessel rather than into it. True to the inscription, the decoration is based on a Körin design, once again his interpretation of the popular "eight bridges" episode in the ninth chapter of the classical Tales of Ise. Like that of catalogue number 49, the Kõrin prototype was probably a fan design (see fig. 33). In 1997 1 discovered an identical piece in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, which had been acquired from the collection of British artist Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956). A number of other similar works remain. Misalignment between body and lid design in both the Freer and Brangwyn pieces suggests the components were switched when the set was still together.
The signature is in the style of Kenzan's adopted son, Ihachi, and the attribution of the design is also in keeping with a comment made in Tõki mippõsho, a pottery manual thought to be from Ihachi's hand: "One may paint from the models (tehon) left by Körin and Watanabe...." The signature-widely agreed to be from the hand of Ihachi-has an unusual location on the median is also similar to a bowl in the collection of the Shōgoin Temple, Kyoto, The broad circulation of the design is revealed in a stoneware plaque made by French potter Auguste Delaherche (1857-1940) between 1894 and 1904.0
Size: XX" tall diameter wide long (XX cm), XX" tall diameter wide long deep (XX cm), XX" tall diameter wide long deep (XX cm)
Weight: XX oz (XX g)
Provenance:
Present: Ryan Snooks collection of Japanese & Asian Decorative Art
Previous: Private Collection
Collected: Seller from Hyogo, Japan, 31 OCT 2023
Condition: Item is used in fair condition commensurate with age, see photos. Repaired crack to lid.
Subject: Design of iris flowers in Ko-Kiyomizu style blue and green enamels
Location:
Antique Japanese Kyoto Ceramic Lidded Bowl by Ogata Ihachi Ogata Kenzan II 1700s
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Type: Lidded Food Serving Bowl
Material: Ceramic Pottery
Age: 1720-1760, Edo Period (1603-1868)
Origin/Maker: Ogata Ihachi (Ogata Kenzan II aka Kyoto Kenzan II), Kyoto, Japan. Maker's mark on side and on lid. Nearly identical example in the book "The Potter's Brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese Ceramics" by Richard L. Wilson with the following description:
30] LIDDED BOWL WITH DESIGN OF IRIS BY OGATA IHACHI (KYOTO KENZAN II, ACT. CA. 1720-1760) Japan, Edo period, mid-18th century Acquired from Matsuki Bunkio ($38); original attribution: "Kenzan." Morse attribution: "Good piece." 8.8 x 13.3 Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1899.46 Fine-grained white clay. Lid and vessel thrown on potter's wheel. Painted decoration of iris detail on the exterior median, outside and inside of lid in blue and two tones of green underglaze enamels; inscription/signature reading "Körin ga [o] mosha [suru], Kenzan" (copying a Körin painting, [signed] Kenzan), with "ji"-shaped cipher, in underglaze iron. Additional underglaze iron "Kenzan" signature on exterior median. Overall application of lead glaze; low-temperature firing. Chip on rim of lid, repaired.
7466 This is a lidded bowl for serving steamed food; the lid is designed so that steam condensing on its underside drips out of the vessel rather than into it. True to the inscription, the decoration is based on a Körin design, once again his interpretation of the popular "eight bridges" episode in the ninth chapter of the classical Tales of Ise. Like that of catalogue number 49, the Kõrin prototype was probably a fan design (see fig. 33). In 1997 1 discovered an identical piece in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, which had been acquired from the collection of British artist Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956). A number of other similar works remain. Misalignment between body and lid design in both the Freer and Brangwyn pieces suggests the components were switched when the set was still together.
The signature is in the style of Kenzan's adopted son, Ihachi, and the attribution of the design is also in keeping with a comment made in Tõki mippõsho, a pottery manual thought to be from Ihachi's hand: "One may paint from the models (tehon) left by Körin and Watanabe...." The signature-widely agreed to be from the hand of Ihachi-has an unusual location on the median is also similar to a bowl in the collection of the Shōgoin Temple, Kyoto, The broad circulation of the design is revealed in a stoneware plaque made by French potter Auguste Delaherche (1857-1940) between 1894 and 1904.0
Size: XX" tall diameter wide long (XX cm), XX" tall diameter wide long deep (XX cm), XX" tall diameter wide long deep (XX cm)
Weight: XX oz (XX g)
Provenance:
Present: Ryan Snooks collection of Japanese & Asian Decorative Art
Previous: Private Collection
Collected: Seller from Hyogo, Japan, 31 OCT 2023
Condition: Item is used in fair condition commensurate with age, see photos. Repaired crack to lid.
Subject: Design of iris flowers in Ko-Kiyomizu style blue and green enamels
Location:
Antique Japanese Kyoto Ceramic Lidded Bowl by Ogata Ihachi Ogata Kenzan II 1700s
