Chayang ware tea bowl in style of Jian ware

Object Details

• Description

  Tea-bowl: Temmoku shape. Slightly concave, straight sided foot. Copper rim loose.

  Clay: Stoneware apparently light gray beneath medium gray surface.

  Glaze: Black, slightly streaked with brown, stopping irregularly short of foot. A thin, brown layer appears at this edge, running a little further down. Copper rim.

• Inscriptions

  Faint traces of a red lacquer cipher written on the base of the bowl.

• Provenance

  To 1911

  Y. Fujita and Company, Kyoto, to 1911 [1]

  From 1911 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Y. Fujita and Company in 1911 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2156, 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

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

  Japanese Ceramics from Past to Present (February 18, 1983 to February 16, 1984)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Y. Fujita and Company (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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• Date

  1200s, 1300s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Fujita

• Place

  Nanping, China, Fujian province, Chayang kiln

• Topic

  Chayang ware, Tea, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Chinese Art, Brown and black glaze, Southern Song dynasty (1127 - 1279), Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368), Ceramics

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)