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OTAGAKI RENGETSU: A GLAZED MIZUSASHI WITH LACQUERED WOOD COVER AND POEM
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12月06日 下午5点 开拍 / 12月04日 下午3点 截止委托
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OTAGAKI RENGETSU: A GLAZED MIZUSASHI WITH LACQUERED WOOD COVER AND POEM

By Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875), Signed Rengetsu
Japan, 19th century, Edo period (1615-1868)

The mizusashi (water container) of barrel form, incised with a poem and covered in a cream glaze suffused with fine crackles save for the base and upper rim. The cover of concave form and roiro ground with a short handle. Signed RENGETSU.

Inscriptions: At Yashima Bay, among warriors, floating on the evening tide, what cannot be swept away, the crescent moon. (Mononofu no, Yashima no ura no, yuunami ni, nagare mo ae nu yumihari no tsuki).

HEIGHT 11.6 cm

With a padded storage box. (2)

Condition: Very good condition with minor wear. The lacquer cover with light wear, minor flaking, and small blisters.
Provenance: Robert C. Eldred, Massachusetts, United States, 1989. The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago, Illinois, acquired from the above. The cover and interior each with an old label, ‘EL-86’. The storage box with a description, ‘Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875) Mizusashi (Water Container) with Lacquer Lid’, and dated ‘19th century’. A copy of a letter written and signed James W. Alsdorf, dated 23 August 1989, addressed to Robert C. Eldred, confirming the provenance above, accompanies this lot. James and Marilynn Alsdorf got married in 1952 and built a life that was centered on art, philanthropy and family. Studying and collecting art was their all-consuming passion, and it took them all over the world. Their spirit of adventure was unique; they went places that few collectors at the time were curious and confident enough to explore. As their interests diversified, so did their collection. ‘They were not strategic in their collecting,’ recalls Bridget Alsdorf, the couple’s granddaughter. ‘They were guided by what fascinated them and gave them pleasure, by knowledge and instinct. They were an incredible team.’ As well as being great collectors, the Alsdorfs were loyal supporters of museums and cultural institutions across Chicago and the wider United States, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago. James Alsdorf served as Chairman of the AIC from 1975 to 1978, and Marilynn sat on various committees. In 1967, the Alsdorfs joined other prominent Chicago collectors, including, Edwin and Lindy Bergman and Robert and Beatrice Mayer, in founding the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, an institution to which they would provide extensive financial and personal leadership. After James’s passing in 1990, Marilynn, who was known as ‘the queen of the Chicago arts community’, continued to build upon her husband’s legacy in art and philanthropy, making a transformative bequest to the AIC in 1997, and funding a curatorial position in Indian and Southeast Asian Art at the AIC in 2006.

Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875) was in her lifetime a Buddhist nun, poet, calligrapher, potter and painter. After enduring the tragic loss of two husbands and all her children, at only 33 years old, she shaved her head and became a nun, at which time she adopted the name Rengetsu. In later years she began to make pottery, which she then inscribed with her own waka (31-syllable classical poetry) and sold to support herself.

Museum comparison:
Compare a related teapot with similar inscription by the same artist, dated to the mid-19th century, in The Walters Arts Museum, accession number 49.891.

Auction comparison:
Compare a related water vessel with similar inscription by the same artist, at Christie’s, The Art of Asia, 8 December 2016, New York, lot 47 (sold for USD 3,750).

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