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Serving bowl with Kenzan style decoration, unknown Kyoto workshop

2 pp

[1] Undated folder sheet note. Also see Original Pottery List, L. 630, 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 compan

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Serving bowl, Kyoto-related ware

2 pp

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 622, 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 locat

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Serving bowl, possibly Hagi ware

3 pp

Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

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Serving dish

3 pp

The Kiyomizu Rokubei workshop took its name from its location in the Kiyomizu district of eastern Kyoto long known for pottery production. This large plate borrows its decor from a bowl by the early 18th-century potter Ogata Kenzan. Pine boughs are rendered in broad strokes of underglaze iron, while white slip spattered over the surface becomes drifting snow. Purposefully rustic in form, the plate

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Serving vessel with lid (<em>dun</em>) and dragons and ducks

[1] Thomas Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C., exhibition cat. (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1982), pg. 32, cat. no. 4. Also see object file, undated folder sheet note 3, notes from L. Wannieck, as well as, object file, undated folder sheet note 5, Carl Bishop.

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object

Seto ware jar with stamped decor

2 pp

Rufus E. Moore (1840-1918) (C.L. Freer source)

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Seto ware vase with two lugs

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Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

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sculpture

Seven Buddhas (Sanskrit Septa Manusi-Buddha) Tree

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N.E. Montross (1849-1932) (C.L. Freer source)

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painting

Seven women walking near a football court

[1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Panel List, L. pg. 18, 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 al

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painting

Seven young women in a bamboo grove

well-known associate, Bunshichi Kobayashi (see correspondence, Hull to Freer, 1898-1900, as well as invoices from E.S. Hull Jr., 1898-1900, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives). See also, Ingrid Larsen, "'Don’t Send Ming or Later Pictures': Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum," Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011), pgs. 15 an

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Seymour

Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonne," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G30 state 2 of 3.

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Seymour

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