Stoneware with iron glaze, splashed with high silica ash
Dimensions:
H x W: 44.4 x 22.8 cm (17 1/2 x 9 in)
Style:
Yixing ware
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Yixing, Jiangsu province, China
Date:
mid 17th-19th century
Period:
Qing dynasty
Description:
Jar: tall ellipsoidal; short cylindrical neck and rounded lip.
Clay: hard, dense, gray stone-ware, medium-brown where exposed.
Glaze: dark lustrous gray, with over-flowing splash of mingled blue, green, gray and white; pitted. Iron glaze with application of high-silica glaze to neck and shoulder (or ash deposited during firing?)
Provenance:
To 1915
John Fenning, New York, to 1915 [1]
From 1915 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from John Fenning in 1915 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2430, 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:
Storage Jars of Asia (October 29, 2000 to March 10, 2002)
Untitled, Met Museum, 1916 (March 1916 to November 1920)
