Object details

Accession number

S15w4

Creators

• Sadakata (Japan, active 19th century) - artist
• Unknown - primary

Full title

The Poet Li Bai

Creation Date

early 19th century

Provenance

Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Japanese art dealer Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston for $24 on 27 March 1901, lot 224.

Marks

Signed (inside): FushudoStamped: Sadakata

Dimensions

28.6 cm (11 1/4 in.) height

Display Media

Glazed ceramic (Bizen ware)

Web Commentary

Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.

Permanent Gallery Location

Early Italian Room

Bibliography

Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 7. (as "Old Imbee Figure, Ri Haku, a great Chinese poet"; mark by Fukutsudo, seal by Sada Kata)Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 104.Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), pp. 38, 417, 418 n. 12.Diana Seave Greenwald. "Creating Rapture: Assemblage & Museum Making" in Diana Seave Greenwald (ed.). Betye Saar: Heart of a Wonderer. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023), p. 19, fig. 1.   

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