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Guan ware long-necked vase with raised bow-string decoration

Description:: Vase with mallet-shaped (chih-ch'iu p'ing) body and tall cylindrical neck, with two encircling ridges.; Clay: hard, fine, gray.; Glaze: lustrous waxy bluish-gray celadon; coarse brown crackle.

Provenance:: To 1911; Chin Tung, China, to 1911 [1]; From 1911 to 1919; Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Chin Tung, China, in 1911 [2]; From 1920; Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]; Notes:; [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2119, 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.

Exhibition History:: Setting the Bar: Arts of the Song dynasty (October 14, 2017 - ongoing); Chinese Ceramics: 10th–13th Century (November 5, 2011 to December 7, 2015); Shades of Green and Blue: Chinese Celadon Ceramics (July 15, 1997 to September 7, 2004); Chinese Ceramics (March 15, 1982 to July 10, 1986); Chinese Art (March 9, 1981 to March 12, 1982); Chinese Ceramics (May 9, 1980 to March 6, 1981); Chinese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to September 4, 1980); Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981); Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics (March 7, 1957 to January 1, 1963); Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics, 1955 (September 19, 1955 to November 10, 1955); Centennial Exhibition, Gallery 13 (November 10, 1955 to March 1, 1957); Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1946 (May 6, 1946 to November 17, 1955); Untitled Exhibition, The Japan Society, February 1914 (February 1914)