Medium:

Stoneware with trailed slip decoration under lead-silicate glazes

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 26.6 × 28.9 cm (10 1/2 × 11 3/8 in)

Style:

Fahua ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Shanxi province, China

Date:

late 15th-early 16th century

Period:

Ming dynasty

Description:

Polychrome jar: large inverted pear-form with short cylindrical neck.

Clay: dense, buff-tinted stoneware.

Glaze: green-blue, crackled: inside, glazed also.

Decoration: designs modelled in paste and glazed in white, yellow, brown and aubergine; faces of figures unglazed.

Provenance:

To 1907

Unidentified owner, Japan, to 1907 [1]

From 1907 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased in Japan 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. 1550, 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 (May 2, 1923 to February 21, 2011)

Previous custodian or owner:

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1907.75

Restrictions & Rights:

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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