Shiwan (Shekwan) kilns, Foshan, Guangdong province, China
Date:
17th-19th century
Period:
Qing dynasty
Description:
Figure seated on a recumbent elephant; rectangular base with cut corners.
Body: hard, gray stoneware.
Glaze: opaque bluish gray with brown showing through where thin; entire base glazed.
Provenance:
To 1909
Mah Zuh Kee, Shanghai, to 1909 [1]
From 1909 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Mah Zuh Kee in 1909 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2048, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, Accession File, Collections Management office.
[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.
