Porcelain with transparent pale-blue (qingbai) glaze
Dimensions:
H x Diam: 49.1 × 17.1 cm (19 5/16 × 6 3/4 in)
Style:
Qingbai ware
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
China
Date:
13th century
Period:
Southern Song dynasty
Description:
Funeral vase: tall, slender, with conical neck and bulging mouth.
Clay: hard, dense, whitish.
Glaze: brilliant bluish-gray; irregular brown crackle.
Decoration: figures (some broken), dragon and clouds in applied relief, under glaze. One of a pair with F1906.252.
Provenance:
To 1906
Yamanaka & Company, to 1906 [1]
From 1906 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1906 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1478, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The majority of Charles Lang Freer’s purchases from Yamanaka & Company were made at its New York branch. Yamanaka & Company maintained branch offices, at various times, in Boston, Chicago, London, Peking, Shanghai, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto. During the summer, the company also maintained seasonal locations in Newport, Bar Harbor, and Atlantic City.
[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.
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - September 14, 2025)
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)
Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Screens (October 3, 1947 to November 10, 1955)
Previous custodian or owner:
Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)
