Record Yatsushiro or Shodai ware vase in the form of an archaic Chinese cong | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution

Yatsushiro or Shodai ware vase in the form of an archaic Chinese cong

Description:: Flower vase, tall, square, with round neck and thick lip.; Clay: fine, fired dark reddish brown.; Glaze: copper green mottled with black above; yellowish buff below.; Decoration: two rows of deep notches down each side.

Provenance:: To 1897; Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1897 [1]; From 1897 to 1919; Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1897 [2]; From 1920; Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]; Notes:; [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 111, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.; [2] See note 1.; [3] 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.

Exhibition History:: The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing); The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019); The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)

Previous custodian or owner:: Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source); Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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