Vessel of type ting, with lid

Object Details

• Description

  Pottery vessel of type ting,with a groove round the body, two angular handles, three splayed legs. The lid has three concentric grooves and three equally spaced lugs.

  Paste: very soft greyish pottery.

  Glaze: none.

  Decoration: The inner facings of the handles bear faintly discernible moulded decoration of meandering band of the Li-yu type. The tops of the legs bear moulded monster masks.

• Provenance

  From 1923

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased by Carl Whiting Bishop at I-Chou, Hopei province, China in November 1923 [1]

  Note:

  [1] See Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Origin

  Hebei province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

  CC0 - Creative Commons (CC0 1.0)

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• Date

  BCE 0s

• Place

  China, Hebei province

• Topic

  Unglazed, Art, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE), Chinese Art, Pottery, Ceramics, Carl Whiting Bishop collection

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)