Surface: rough green and blue patination with patches of smoother dull black.
Decoration: in low relief.
Inscriptions:
1-character inscription
Provenance:
To 1907
Unknown owner, China, to 1907 [1]
1907
Shinsuke Hayashi, Kyoto, Japan, acquired in 1907 [2]
From 1907 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Shinsuke Hayashi in Japan in 1907 [3]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
Notes:
[1] According to Curatorial Remark 3 in the object record, Charles Lang Freer noted: "Mr. Hayashi, a leading dealer in Kyoto, from whom I bought this jar in 1907, told me that it came direct to him from China the same year."
[2] See note 1. Also, see Original Bronze List, S.I. 28, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[3] See note 2.
[4] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
The Power to See Beauty (October 14, 2017 to September 6, 2022)
Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Metalwork, 1943 (March 22, 1943 to December 13, 1944)
Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Metalwork (March 14, 1931 to March 22, 1943)
Chinese Jades and Bronze, East Corridor (November 19, 1923 to March 14, 1931)
