Jar

Object Details

• Description

  Jar with wood cover and stand. Large, inverted pear-shape. Spur marks inside. Incised mark on base. Wood cover and stand.

  Clay: buff stone ware.

  Glaze: rich cream, outside; black inside. Transparent over cream slip. Decoration: in black under glaze; red and green enamels over glaze.

• Marks

  Incised mark on base

• 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 New York, in 1917 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2488, 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: 13th–14th Century (December 20, 2014 to January 3, 2016)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1947 (October 13, 1947 to May 26, 1953)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting and Ceramics, 1943 (March 22, 1943 to November 13, 1944)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting and Ceramics (March 14, 1931 to March 22, 1943)

  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

  Yuzhou kilns, Henan province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1300s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, You, Xiaoxi

• Place

  Yuzhou kilns, China, Henan province

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Cizhou ware, Chinese Art, Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368), Ceramics, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)