Vase with incised and applied decoration

Object Details

• Description

  Vase: bottle-shaped; depressed base.

  Clay: hard, white, resonant.

  Glaze: cream-white of moist brilliance; coarsely crackled.

  Decoration: dragon design in relief on the neck; floral and meander

  designs incised in paste under glaze on the body.

• Provenance

  To 1916

  You Xiaoxi, Shanghai, to 1916 [1]

  From 1916 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from You Xiaoxi, in New York in 1916 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2493, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. According to Curatorial Remark 6, undated folder sheet note, in the object record, this object was reproduced in Masterpieces in Chinese National Art, the Collection of Mr. Seaouke Yue, [Shanghai; 1916], pl. 81.

  [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

  The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing)

  Chinese Painting and Pottery (May 2, 1923 to March 22, 1943)

• Previous custodian or owner

  You Xiaoxi 游篠溪 (late 19th-early 20th century) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Zhang kilns, Fujian province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 12: The Peacock Room Comes to America

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• Date

  1640s, 1890s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, You, Xiaoxi

• Place

  Zhang kilns, China, Fujian province

• Topic

  Art, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Zhang ware

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes