Dish with molded decoration

Object Details

• Description

  Dish: low shallow with scalloped sides; low foot. Lip repaired.

  Clay: dense, hard, buff, resonant.

  Glaze: mingled lavender, blue, gray, and grayish-green; two spots of amethyst and brown.

  Decoration: flower-form modelled in paste, under glaze.

• Provenance

  To 1905

  Yamanaka & Company, to 1905 [1]

  From 1905 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), given by Yamanaka & Company in December 1905 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1450, 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 Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing)

  The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019)

  The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)

  Untitled Exhibition, East Asian Ceramics and Paintings, East Corridor (January 8, 1947 to ---)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1946 (May 6, 1946 to November 17, 1955)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Metalwork, Pottery, and Painting (March 23, 1944 to May 2, 1946)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics and Paintings (November 14, 1944 to May 3, 1946)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting and Ceramics, 1943 (March 22, 1943 to November 13, 1944)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting and Ceramics (March 14, 1931 to March 22, 1943)

  Early Chinese Pottery and Scultpure, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1916 (March 6 to October 15, 1916)

  Untitled Exhibition, The Japan Society, February 1914 (February 1914)

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Guangdong or Jiangsu province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 12: The Peacock Room Comes to America

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1600s, 1690s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Guangdong, Jiangsu province, China

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Shiwan ware, Ceramics, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644), Jun-style ware, Yixing ware

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes