Chayang ware tea bowl in style of Jian ware

Object Details

• Description

  Tea-bowl, Temmoku shape, deep, conical, on low foot; silver rim. Gold lacquer repairs.

  Clay: dense, gray.

  Glaze: brilliant yellow, turning to dark olive in the welt and inside pool; iridescent.

• Provenance

  To 1911

  Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1911 [1]

  From 1911 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1911 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2147, Freer Galley 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

  Mind Over Matter: Zen in Medieval Japan (March 5, 2022 - July 24, 2022)

  Chinese Ceramics for Tea in Japan (March 8 to September 14, 2014)

  Zen, Tea, and Chinese Art in Medieval Japan (December 13, 2014 to June 14, 2015)

  Golden Seams: The Japanese Art of Mending Ceramics (November 8, 2008 to May 10, 2009)

  Parades: Freer Ceramics Installed by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott (November 4, 2006 to January 7, 2008)

  Studies in Connoisseurship 1923-1983 (September 23, 1983 to March 1, 1984)

  Luminous Shadows (April 1, 1982 to June 21, 1982)

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Chayang kiln, Nanping, Fujian province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1200s, 1300s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Nanping, China, Fujian province, Chayang kiln

• Topic

  Art, Lacquer repair, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Southern Song dynasty (1127 - 1279), Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368), Ceramics, Chayang ware, Tea, Charles Lang Freer collection, Lacquer, Iridescence, Jian ware

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)