Arthur M Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art - The National Museum of Asian Art - Smithsonian Institution
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The Decorative Modes of the Kenzan Style
The Raku Mode

Black Raku tea bowl with design of mountain retreat
by Ogata Ihachi (Kyoto Kenzan II, act. ca. 1720–1760)
Japan, Edo period, mid-18th century
Clay; black lead glaze; white slip, iron and cobalt pigments under transparent lead glaze
Gift of Charles Lang Freer F1902.53

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