Flowerpot with impressed character jiu (nine)

Object Details

• Description

  Flower-pot, with twelve-lobed sides and festooned rim. Strong basal ring, moulded to correspond with the rim. Five perforations in the base, four of which are stopped with plaster. Numeral jiu (9) and inscription incised on the bottom.

  Clay: porcellanous, sonant.

  Glaze: deep strawberry red on the outside mingled with blue; blue inside; ribs and edges show as olive brown.

• Inscriptions

  Numeral jiu (9) and inscription incised on the bottom.

• Provenance

  1929

  Yamanaka and Company, Boston 1929 [1]

  From 1929

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Yamanaka and Company, Boston 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 (April 11, 1978 to September 4, 1980)

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

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics, 1955 (September 19, 1955 to November 10, 1955)

  Untitled Exhibition, East Asian Ceramics and Paintings, East Corridor (January 8, 1947 to ---)

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

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Metalwork, Pottery, and Painting (March 23, 1944 to May 2, 1946)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics and Paintings (November 14, 1944 to May 3, 1946)

  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

  Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965)

• Origin

  Henan province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1400s, 1300s

• Name

  Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  China, Henan province

• Topic

  Art, Jun ware, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368), Ceramics, Flowers, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)