Jar

Object Details

• Description

  Jar: tall ellipsoidal; short cylindrical neck and rounded lip.

  Clay: hard, dense, gray stone-ware, medium-brown where exposed.

  Glaze: dark lustrous gray, with over-flowing splash of mingled blue, green, gray and white; pitted. Iron glaze with application of high-silica glaze to neck and shoulder (or ash deposited during firing?)

• Provenance

  To 1915

  John Fenning, New York, to 1915 [1]

  From 1915 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from John Fenning in 1915 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2430, 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

  Storage Jars of Asia (October 29, 2000 to March 10, 2002)

  Untitled, Met Museum, 1916 (March 1916 to November 1920)

• Previous custodian or owner

  John Fenning (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Yixing, Jiangsu province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1900s, 1640s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Fenning, John

• Place

  Jiangsu province, Yixing, China

• Topic

  Art, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Yixing ware

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)