Bowl, Cizhou-type ware

Object Details

• Description

  Bowl, deep; high foot. Gold lacquer and other repairs to rim and remains of repairs to numerous outside scars: cracks.

  Clay: fine-grained grayish-white stoneware.

  Glaze: transparent over cream and gray slips; somewhat milky or opacified where it has run down thick from rim on the outside; bare ring in center bottom; slips and glaze stop well short of foot; crackle inside.Slips are gray over cream on outside, cream inside.

  Decoration: slips as above with evenly spaced circles of seven dots with one dot in center painted in cream slip on the gray outside. thin double lines in brown border lip on inside.

• Label

  Large quantities of ceramics made at kilns in southern China, including Zhangzhou, were shipped to Japan in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

• Provenance

  To 1898

  Yamanaka & Company, to 1898 [1]

  From 1898 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1898 [2]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 593, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The majority of Charles Lang Freer’s purchases from Yamanaka & Company were made at its New York branch. Yamanaka & Company maintained branch offices, at various times, in Boston, Chicago, London, Peking, Shanghai, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto. During the summer, the company also maintained seasonal locations in Newport, Bar Harbor, and Atlantic City.

  [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

  The Tea Ceremony as Melting Pot (January 31 to July 18, 2004)

  Untitled Exhibition of Ceramics (March 31, 1994 to March 6, 1995)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Pengcheng kilns, Hebei province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1630s, 1570s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  China, Hebei province, Pengcheng kilns

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, White slip, Brown slip, Cizhou ware, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Ceramics, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644), Iron pigment

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)