Flower pot stand with impressed character liu (six)

Object Details

• Description

  Molded in 6 lobes with fluted rim; 3 cloud-scroll feet. Wooden stand.

  Clay: hard, gray.

  Glaze: inside, olive and purple clouded with greenish-white; "earth-worm markings." Outside: mingled olive, crimson and blue.

  Contains marks and inscription on base.

• Marks

  Spurmarks on 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. 1590, 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)

  Asia in America: Views of Chinese Art from the Indianapolis Museum of Art (September 18, 2004 to March 20, 2005)

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

  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

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Juntai, Henan province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Furniture and Furnishing

• 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, Fujita

• Place

  Juntai, China, Henan province

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Furniture, Furnishings

• On View

  Yes