H x W x D: 29.5 x 16.9 x 16.9 cm (11 5/8 x 6 5/8 x 6 5/8 in)
Style:
Cizhou-type ware
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Shanxi province, China
Date:
1341
Period:
Yuan dynasty
Description:
Pear-shaped bottle.
Clay: buff stoneware.
Glaze: iron-black glaze, deep brown flecked with ochre. Foot unglazed, but splotches of glaze on base, fingerprints in glaze around lower edge of bottle.
Decoration: three highly abstracted birds, flying to the left, painted in iron pigment over the glaze, using a thick, floppy brush. The pigment appears bluish-black and matte.
Mark: Cyclical date equivalent to 1341 (founding year of Zhizheng era). Illegible mark incised on the base using a blunt tool.
Marks:
Cyclical date equivalent to 1341 (founding year of Zhizheng era). Illegible mark incised on the base using a blunt tool.
Inscriptions:
(Louise Cort, 6 December 1991) Inscribed in iron painted over the glaze with a date equivalent to 1341, at the very end of the Yuan dynasty.
(Louise Cort, 6 December 1991) Inscribed in iron painted over the glaze with a date equivalent to 1341, at the very end of the Yuan dynasty.
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
Chinese Ceramics: 13th–14th Century (December 20, 2014 to January 3, 2016)
Black and White: Chinese Ceramics from the 10th-14th Centuries (December 18, 2004 to November 7, 2010)
Beyond Paper: Chinese Calligraphy on Objects (August 18, 1994 to July 3, 1997)
