Cizhou-type ware bowl with white rim

Object Details

• Description

  Bowl: deep, ovoidal, on low foot.

  Clay: hard, dense, gray.

  Glaze: ivory-white on rim. Rich luminous black over white slip, on body; lightly pitted. Unglazed base washed with black.

• Label

  The band of white slip on the rim of this bowl may imitate the appearance of a band of thin silver foil, a fashionable addition to the rims of ceramic bowls for the elite.

• Provenance

  To 1915

  Lai-Yuan and Company, New York to 1915 [1]

  From 1915 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Lai-Yuan and Company in 1915 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2439, 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

  Black and White: Chinese Ceramics from the 10th-14th Centuries (December 18, 2004 to November 7, 2010)

  Chinese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to September 4, 1980)

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Lai-Yuan & Company (ca. 1915-April 1921) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Northern China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1100s, 1000s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Lai-Yuan & Company

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Ceramics, Northern Song dynasty (960 - 1127), Cizhou type ware

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)