Object Details
- Description
- Incense-burner, small lobed-baluster form. Metal cover.
- Clay: soft, buff, coarse.
- Glaze: green-blue.
- Decoration: incised in paste under glaze.
- Inscription in ink on the base.
- Inscriptions
- Inscription in ink on the base.
- Provenance
- To 1903
- Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1903 [1]
- From 1903 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1903 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1249, 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
- Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 16th-mid 17th century
- Period
- Ming dynasty
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with alkaline glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 9.5 × 10 cm (3 3/4 × 3 15/16 in)
- Type
- Vessel
