Banshan type jar

Object Details

• Description

  Vase: spheroid shape with short neck and flaring lip. Two flat vertical ears at lip and two flat loop handles just below widest point of body. Body: soft, fine-grained, buff-colored clay. Potted thin. Decoration: neck, inside of lip and upper part of body painted with symbolic patterns in black and chocolate brown.

• Provenance

  To 1930

  George Findlay Andrew (1887-1971) Gansu, China to 1930 [1]

  From 1930

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from George Findlay Andrew, Gansu, China, through Carl W. Bishop in 1930 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note. See also account book for Freer Gallery of Art Expedition Fund, February 10, 1930 to June 30, 1932, second page of Gold Account.

  [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)

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  George Findlay Andrew (1887-1971)

• Origin

  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 5000s, BCE 2000s

• Name

  Andrew, George Findlay

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Art, Chinese Art, Neolithic period (ca. 7000 - ca. 1700 BCE), Pottery, Gansu ware

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)