Deep bowl with modeled and incised lotus-petal design, probably Pingding ware

Object Details

• Description

  Clay: hard, light gray.

  Glaze: deep cream-color. White slip covering body (beneath glaze) and inside of footrim (without glaze). Irregular ring for stacking wiped into glaze and slip in bottom of bowl. Glaze stained by smoke during firing.

  Decoration: lotus design partly modelled in relief and partly incised.

• Provenance

  To 1916

  Lai-Yuan and Company, New York, to 1916 [1]

  From 1916 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Lai-Yuan and Company in 1916 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2484, 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

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

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Shanxi province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1100s, 1000s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Lai-Yuan & Company

• Place

  Shanxi province, China

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)