Stoneware with brown and white slips and iron pigment under clear glaze
Dimensions:
H x Diam: 3.9 × 15.9 cm (1 9/16 × 6 1/4 in)
Style:
Cizhou-type ware
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Pengcheng (modern Handan), Hebei province, China
Date:
late 16th-early 17th century
Period:
Ming dynasty
Description:
Dish, low saucer-shaped; thick basal ring.
Clay: dense, rather soft, gray.
Glaze: clear glaze; cream-colored slip under glaze; irregularly crackled and discolored, some chips missing from interior in area showing gritty remains of spurs.
Decoration: painted in brown and yellow slips under glaze on interior - floral spray.
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. 1557, 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 Tea Ceremony as Melting Pot (January 31 to July 18, 2004)
