Object Details
- Description
- Sepulchral jar: tall, elongated, ovoidal. Wood stand.
- Clay: hard, buff, speckled with black.
- Glaze: blackish-brown; finely crazed; partly disintegrated.
- Decoration: a doorway, figures, and animalistic forms in applied relief. Design details incised and filled with glaze.
- Provenance
- To 1916
- C. D. McGrath, Shanghai, to 1916 [1]
- From 1916 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from C. D. McGrath, in New York, in 1916 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2499, 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
- C. D. McGrath (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- mid 10th-mid 17th century
- Period
- Song to Ming dynasty
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 32.2 x 16.4 cm (12 11/16 x 6 7/16 in)
- Type
- Vessel
