Stem-cup; bowl-shaped on small hollow splayed foot.
Clay: buff-gray stoneware.
Glaze: celadon type, gray of creamy olive tone, stops short of lower part of foot. Surface deposits on outside, with possible scarring of glaze underneath.
Decoration: inside, dragon in clouds molded in low relief under the glaze; outside, fluted in plain band defining slightly everted lip.
Provenance:
To 1909
Unidentified dealer, Beijing, to 1909 [1]
From 1909 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from an unidentified dealer in Beijing in 1909 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2020, 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.
