Bottle and Stand

Object Details

• Description

  Stand with flaring base and top.

  Body: hard buff earthenware.

  Glaze: green lead glaze, finely crackled, largely iridescent.

  Decoration: pairs of incised lines surround body; three holes in lower section.

• Provenance

  To 1930

  C. T. Loo & Company, New York to 1930 [1]

  From 1930

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from C. T. Loo & Company, New York in 1930 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note. See also Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires (May 9, 1993 to January 28, 2007)

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

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

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Scrolls (July 19, 1943 to April 30, 1946)

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

  Chinese Panels and Han Pottery (February 25, 1925 to July 19, 1943)

• Previous custodian or owner

  C.T. Loo & Company (1914-1948)

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Furniture and Furnishing

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  500s

• Name

  C.T. Loo & Company

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Art, Chinese Art, Northern Zhou dynasty (557 - 581), Northern Qi dynasty (550 - 577), Pottery, Iridescence, Ceramics

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Furniture, Furnishings