Object details

Object number

CR34n19

Creator(s)

Raku Ryonyu (1756 - 1834)

Title

Ash Dish (Hai-ire)

Date

1811-1834

Medium

Ceramic with red raku glaze (clear glaze over red slip)

Dimensions

5.1 x 18.4 cm (2 x 7 1/4 in.)

Signatures, inscriptions, and markings

Seal (on bottom): Raku Ryonyu [version used after his 1811 retirement from head of the Raku workshop]

Provenance

Gift from Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913), Japanese art historian and philosopher, to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 11 September 1905.

Commentary

The seal is the one used by Ryonyu after his retirement from head of the Raku workshop in 1811.

Bibliography

William Thrasher and Caroline Graboys. "The Beginnings of Chanoyu in America." Chanoyu Quarterly (1984), pp. 20, 22, 24-25, ill. (as Japanese, Raku)
Sunao Nakamura (ed.). Okakura Kakuzo: Collected English Writings, III (Tokyo, 1984), pp. 61-63, 58-59.
Victoria Weston. East Meets West: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Okakura Kakuzo. Exploring Treasures in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum V. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1992), p. 28.
Rebecca G. Breslow. "Humanity in a Tea-cup: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Okakura Kakuzo" in Chanoyu Quarterly: Tea and the Arts of Japan, No. 85 (1996), pp. 51-53.
Alan Chong et al. (eds.) Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2003), pp. 176-77, ill.
Louise Allison Cort . "Mrs. Gardner's 'Set of Tea-Things.' A Vehicle for Friendship, Power, & Aesthetic Instruction" in Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), pp. 384-86, fig 1. (attributed to Raku Ryonyu, as dated after 1811)

Gallery

Chinese Room

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