Vase with design of dragon and phoenix

Object Details

• Description

  Monochrome - creamy white glaze.

  Vase: large flattened-bottle shape (full moon); spreading base.

  Clay: fairly hard, buff, thinly potted.

  Glaze: cream-white, finely crackled; damaged.

  Decoration: molded in low relief under glaze.

• Provenance

  Excavated at Kai-feng-fu in Honan [1]

  To 1916

  You Xiaoxi (late 19th-early 20th century), Shanghai, to 1916 [2]

  From 1916 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), given by You Xiaoxi in 1916 [3]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

  Notes:

  [1] According to curatorial Remark 3, C.L. Freer, in the object record: "This vase was excavated at Kai-feng-fu in Honan."

  [2] See Original Pottery List, L. 2492, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. According to Curatorial Remark 5, in the object record, this object was reproduced in Masterpieces in Chinese National Art, Collection of Mr. Seaouke Yue [Shanghai: 1916], pl. 80.

  [3] See note 2.

  [4] 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

• 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

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• Date

  1800s, 1700s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, You, Xiaoxi

• Place

  Zhang kilns, China, Fujian province

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Phoenix, Zhang ware, Ceramics, Dragon

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)