Jar with long neck

Object Details

• Description

  Jar (hu 壷): inverted pear-shaped body; slightly contracting cylindrical neck, and broad, shallow, flanged lip.

  Clay: dense, soft, grayish-white.

  Glaze: black, showing tones of brown, blue, and purple, with grayish pittings and hair-line crazing; frosted with decay. Glaze extends just below shoulder, leaving lower body and base bare. Interior unglazed.

• Provenance

  To 1917

  Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1917 [1]

  From 1917 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1917 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2544, Freer Galley 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)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Zhejiang province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  700s, 500s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  China, Zhejiang province

• Topic

  Period of Division (220 - 589), Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)