Pillow

Object Details

• Description

  An oblong pillow, moulded hollow. A hole in one side. "Three color" glaze.

  Clay: dense, hard, reddish.

  Glaze: transparent, over a white slip.

  Decoration: outlines incised in slip; areas glazed in local colors, green, yellow and brown, with white reserves.

• Provenance

  To 1917

  You Xiaoxi (late 19th-early 20th century), Shanghai, to 1917 [1]

  From 1917 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from You Xiaoxi in 1917 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2570, 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

  Children at Play in Chinese Painting (November 14, 2009 to May 23, 2010)

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Dangyangyu kilns, Jiaozuo, Henan province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Furniture and Furnishing

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• Date

  1200s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, You, Xiaoxi

• Place

  Dangyangyu kilns, Jiaozuo, China, Henan province

• Topic

  Jin dynasty (1115 - 1234), Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Cizhou ware, Chinese Art, Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368), Ceramics

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Furniture, Furnishings