Stoneware with slip-trailed decoration over iron glaze
Dimensions:
H x Diam: 8 × 13.9 cm (3 1/8 × 5 1/2 in)
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
China
Date:
1368-1644
Period:
Ming dynasty
Description:
Bowl, ovoidal; broad foot. Hole in side.
Clay: light-weight, grayish.
Glaze: dark aubergine-brown, of high metallic lustre. Glaze wiped off base.
Decoration: in tea-leaf green, over glaze. 5 spur marks.
Provenance:
To 1902
Samuel Colman (1832-1920), New York, NY, and Newport, RI, to 1902 [1]
1902
Rufus E. Moore, New York, NY, purchased at the sale of the Samuel Colman Collection, American Art Association, New York, March 20, 1902, no. 355 [2]
From 1902 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Rufus E. Moore in 1902 [3]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
Notes:
[1] Samuel Colman was collecting Asian objects by at least 1880 (see Curatorial Remark 8, Louise Cort, April 20, 2007, in the object record).
[2] See Original Pottery List, L. 1109, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.
[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.
