Flowerpot stand with impressed character liu (six)

Object Details

• Description

  Molded in six petal-lobes, with foliated rim; on three cloud-scroll feet. Wood stand.

  Clay: hard, gray.

  Glaze: inside, -rich blue and olive; crackled; outside, - deep red, blue, and olive-green.

  Contains marks and inscription on the base.

• Marks

  Spur marks on the base

• Inscriptions

  Incised numeral liu (six) written.

• Provenance

  To 1907

  Y. Fujita and Company, Japan, to 1907 [1]

  From 1907 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Y. Fujita and Company in Japan in 1907 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1591, 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

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

  Chinese Painting and Pottery (May 2, 1923 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

  Y. Fujita and Company (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Henan province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Furniture and Furnishing

• On View

  Freer Gallery 12: The Peacock Room Comes to America

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1400s, 1300s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Fujita

• Place

  China, Henan province

• Topic

  Art, Jun ware, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368), Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Furniture, Furnishings

• On View

  Yes