Medium:

Stoneware with misfired Jun-style glaze

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 6.4 × 8.3 cm (2 1/2 × 3 1/4 in)

Style:

Yixing ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Yixing, Jiangsu province, China

Date:

19th century

Period:

Qing dynasty

Description:

Jar: small, squat-ovoidal; short neck.

Clay: hard, dense.

Glaze: thick, heavy, gray-blue, crackled. Iron-red wash on the foot.

Provenance:

To 1911

Shir Gu Sai, China, to 1911 [1]

From 1911 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Shir Gu Sai, in 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. 2131, 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

Previous custodian or owner:

Shir Gu Sai (C.L. Freer source)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1911.346

Restrictions & Rights:

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Data Source:

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