Medium:

Stoneware with glaze over white slip

Dimensions:

H x W: 38.9 x 24 cm (15 5/16 x 9 7/16 in)

Style:

Changsha or Yuezhou ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Changsha or Yueyang, Hunan province, China

Date:

10th century

Period:

Northern Song dynasty

Description:

Bottle: tall, inverted pear-shaped; small neck, repaired.

Clay: dense, gray.

Glaze: white slip under clear glaze, crackled and scratched. Clear glaze on foot, olive green where thick.

Decoration: lotus-petal design incised under glaze, as collar around neck.

Provenance:

1917

Li Wenqing of Shanghai, 1917 [1]

From 1917 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Li Wenqing of Shanghai in 1917 [2]

From 1920

Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2506, 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:

Shades of Green and Blue: Chinese Celadon Ceramics (July 15, 1997 to September 7, 2004)

Previous custodian or owner:

Li Wenqing 李文卿 (ca. 1869-1931) (C.L. Freer source)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1917.15

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