Planter with impressed character yi (one)

Object Details

• Description

  Planter: large with globular bowl, high neck, flaring mouth and bold spreading foot. Five perforations in base. Numeral i (one) incised. Wooden stand.

  Clay: fine, hard, grayish.

  Glaze: blue and lavender with white overflow; olive on rim and foot. Crackled. "Earth worm markings."

• Provenance

  To 1907

  Unidentified owner, China, to 1907 [1]

  From 1907 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased in China from an unidentified owner in 1907 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1490, 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

  Looking Out, Looking In: Art in Late Imperial China (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)

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

  Shades of Green and Blue: Chinese Celadon Ceramics (July 15, 1997 to September 7, 2004)

  James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art: Artist and Patron (May 11, 1984 to January 17, 1985)

  Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics (March 7, 1957 to January 1, 1963)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics, 1955 (September 19, 1955 to November 10, 1955)

  Centennial Exhibition, Gallery 13 (November 10, 1955 to March 1, 1957)

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

  Special Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1946 (August 7, 1946 to January 7, 1947)

  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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Juntai, Henan province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 13: Looking Out, Looking In: Art in Late Imperial China

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1400s, 1300s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang

• Place

  Juntai, China, Henan province

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Jun ware, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Numbered Jun ware, Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368), Ceramics, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes