Bottle

Object Details

• Description

  Vase: ovoidal, with slender trumpet neck; strong basal ring. Neck broken near half-way point and repaired.

  Clay: hard, buff, low-fired, dense, cream-white.

  Glaze: white slip covered by transparent glaze, with local areas colored green, yellow and cream-color; the surface now largely iridescent. Earth adhesions. Green glaze on base.

  Decoration: lotus design deeply incised in outline.

• Provenance

  To 1934

  Tonying and Company, New York. [1]

  From 1934

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Tonying and Company, New York. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

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

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, West Corridor, 1947 (January 8, 1947 to February 10, 1947)

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

  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)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Tonying and Company 通運公司 (established 1902)

• Origin

  Dangyangyu kilns, Jiaozuo, Henan province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1100s, 1200s

• Name

  Tonying and Company

• Place

  Dangyangyu kilns, Jiaozuo, China, Henan province

• Topic

  Jin dynasty (1115 - 1234), Art, Cizhou ware, Chinese Art, Pottery, Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368), Iridescence, Ceramics, Lotus, Liao dynasty (907 - 1125)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)