Incense Box in the Shape of an Ornamental Roof Pan, anonymous, anonymous, c. 1700 - c. 1799

Identification

Title(s)

Incense Box in the Shape of an Ornamental Roof Pan
Incense box in the shape of Mount Fuji

Object type

incense box

Object number

AK-MAK-709

Inscriptions / marks

mark: ‘Kenzan’

Description

Wierookdoos van steengoed in de vorm van de Fuji berg, bedekt met een lichtbruin glazuur en op het glazuur wit. Gemerkt op de onderzijde met 'kenzan'. Kyoyaki.

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

Japan

Dating

c. 1700 - c. 1799

School / style

Edo-period (1600-1868)

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

formed / fired / vitrification

Measurements

width 10.6 cm × height 2.2 cm × depth 3.7 cm

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (Westendorp-Osieck bequest, 1968)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; purchased from the dealer Hugo Meyl, München, by Herman Karel Westendorp (1868-1941), August 1929;{Note RMA.: cat. Hugo Meyl, 1926, no. 665} his widow Betsy Westendorp-Osieck (1880-1968), Amsterdam, by whom bequeathed to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1968;{note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.1421

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