Medium:

Porcelain with clear glaze

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 4.5 × 14.6 cm (1 3/4 × 5 3/4 in)

Style:

Dehua ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Dehua kilns, Fujian province, China

Date:

ca. 1650-1700

Period:

Qing dynasty

Description:

Bowl: low, round; depressed base; plaster repair, painted.

Clay: hard, white, porcelain, translucent.

Glaze: pinkish white.

Decoration: two lines of script incised in paste, under glaze.

Inscriptions:

Two lines of script incised in paste in bottom of bowl, under glaze.

Provenance:

To 1897

Charles A. Dana (1819-1897), New York to 1897 [1]

From 1898 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at auction, the Dana Collection Sale, American Art Galleries, New York February 24-26, 1898 [2]

From 1920

Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 314, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

[2] See note 1. This object appears to have been listed as no. 357 in the Dana Collection sale catalogue (according to Curatorial Remark 8, Louise Cort, July 18, 2005, in the object record).

[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.

Collection:

Freer Gallery of Art Collection

Previous custodian or owner:

Charles A. Dana (1819-1897)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1898.49

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