Medium:

Stoneware with Jun-style glaze

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 14.6 × 7 cm (5 3/4 × 2 3/4 in)

Style:

Yixing ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Yixing, Jiangsu province, China

Date:

18th century

Period:

Qing dynasty

Description:

Vase, octagonal, with long neck and low foot.

Clay: hard, dense.

Glaze: gray, tinged with yellow; metallic dark brown showing through on edges. Imitation Chun glaze.

Provenance:

To 1907

Unidentified owner, China, to 1907 [1]

From 1907 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased in China from an unidentified owner in 1907 [2]

From 1920

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

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1516, 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.

Collection:

Freer Gallery of Art Collection

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)

Studies in Connoisseurship 1923-1983 (September 23, 1983 to March 1, 1984)

Chinese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to September 4, 1980)

Previous custodian or owner:

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1907.60

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

On View:

Freer Gallery 12: The Peacock Room Comes to America

Related Online Resources:

Google Cultural Institute

The Story of the Beautiful

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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