Cizhou ware jar with cover

Object Details

• Description

  Tz'u-chou ware -- Northern Black ware.

  Jar with cover.

  Clay: hard, dense, grayish-white.

  Glaze: black.

  Decoration: painted in metallic brown over glaze.

• Label

  This jar made at a northern Chinese kiln bears a geometric floral pattern that suggests a relationship to textile designs. The pattern was painted with iron pigment over the coating of iron-rich glaze; the glaze fired to a nearly black color, while the pattern appears as a subtle russet hue.

• Provenance

  1929

  Yamanaka and Company, Washington DC 1929 [1]

  From 1929

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Yamanaka and Company, Washington DC in 1929 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Chinese Ceramics: 10th–13th Century (November 5, 2011 to January 3, 2015)

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

  Chinese Ceramics: Glazed Ceramics of the Tenth through Thirteenth Century (March 9, 1987 to July 19, 1988)

  Chinese Ceramics (March 15, 1982 to July 10, 1986)

  Chinese Art (March 9, 1981 to March 12, 1982)

  Chinese Ceramics (May 9, 1980 to March 6, 1981)

  Chinese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to September 4, 1980)

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

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics (March 7, 1957 to January 1, 1963)

  Centennial Exhibition, Gallery 13 (November 10, 1955 to March 1, 1957)

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

  Special Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1946 (August 7, 1946 to January 7, 1947)

  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

  Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965)

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1100s, 1200s

• Name

  Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Jin dynasty (1115 - 1234), Art, Cizhou ware, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Northern Black ware, Ceramics, Northern Song dynasty (960 - 1127)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)