Object Details
- 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)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1341
- Period
- Yuan dynasty
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Elizabeth Hamm Glass
- Medium
- Stoneware with dark glaze and iron-rich pigment
- Dimensions
- 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
