Cizhou ware bottle with three green splashes

Object Details

• Description

  Vase: slender ovoidal; slightly spreading base, depressed within.

  Clay: hard, white.

  Glaze: lustrous cream-white, showing discolorations; three splashes of green; crackled.

• Provenance

  To 1905

  Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, to 1905 [1]

  From 1905 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, in 1905 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1377, 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

  Rediscovering Korea’s Past (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)

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

  Black and White: Chinese Ceramics from the 10th-14th Centuries (December 18, 2004 to November 7, 2010)

  Chinese Painting and Pottery (May 2, 1923 to March 22, 1943)

  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

  Guantai kilns, Hebei province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 14: Rediscovering Korea's Past

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  900s, 1000s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Guantai kilns, China, Hebei province

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Cizhou ware, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Ceramics, Northern Song dynasty (960 - 1127)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes