Object Details
- Description
- Unclassified.
- Bowl: low flaring, on low foot. Firecrack in base.
- Clay: hard, whitish.
- Glaze: rich yellowish-cream over light-brown slip; crazed and discolored.
- Decoration: incised ring, inside.
- Provenance
- To 1911
- Unidentified owner, Honan-fu, China, to 1911 [1]
- From 1911 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from an unidentified owner at Honan-fu in 1911 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2099, 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
- Parades: Freer Ceramics Installed by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott (November 4, 2006 to January 7, 2008)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- mid 10th-early 12th century
- Period
- Northern Song dynasty
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with white slip under clear glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 6.5 × 20.9 cm (2 9/16 × 8 1/4 in)
- Type
- Vessel
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