Ding ware dish with foliate rim and carved decoration of lotuses

Object Details

• Description

  Dish: low circular; extended rim, notched to give eight-petal form.

  Clay: dense, white, resonant.

  Glaze: lustrous cream-white, with brownish flow on the exterior. Rim unglazed.

  Decoration: carved and incised in the paste, under glaze. Lotus blossoms, seed pod, and leaves.

• Provenance

  To 1917

  You Xiaoxi, Shanghai, to 1917 [1]

  From 1917 to 1919

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

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2574, 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

  Chinese Ceramics: 10th–13th Century (November 5, 2011 to December 7, 2015)

  Black and White: Chinese Ceramics from the 10th-14th Centuries (December 18, 2004 to November 7, 2010)

  Chinese Calligraphy and Ceramics (April 18, 1977 to April 8, 1978)

  Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1946 (May 6, 1946 to November 17, 1955)

  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

  Ding kilns, Hebei province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1100s, 1200s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, You, Xiaoxi

• Place

  China, Ding kilns, Hebei province

• Topic

  Jin dynasty (1115 - 1234), Porcelain, Art, Chinese Art, Ding ware, Lotus

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)