Ding ware bowl with molded lotus design in bottom

Object Details

• Description

  Bowl: deep, widely flaring; bold foot; ridged and notched in six-petaled lotus form.

  Clay: dense, white, musical.

  Glaze: rich cream-white, with brownish flow. Rim unglazed.

  Decoration: lotus design incised in paste under glaze.

  The interior ridges and design of lotus blossom and leaf in the bottom are mold-formed. The corresponding notches on the exterior are incised by hand.

• 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. 2575, 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

• Previous custodian or owner

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

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Hebei province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1100s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, You, Xiaoxi

• Place

  China, Hebei province

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Song dynasty (960 - 1279), Chinese Art, Ding ware, Northern Song dynasty (960 - 1127)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)