Yixing ware Teapot

Object Details

• Artist

  Spurious mark of Chen Gongzhi (early 17th century)

• Description

  Tea-pot of brown unglazed I-hsing clay.

  Inscription of nine characters.

• Inscriptions

  Inscription of nine characters

• Provenance

  To 1939

  Tonying and Company

  From 1939

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Tonying and Company in 1939

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Tonying and Company 通運公司 (established 1902)

• Origin

  Yixing, Jiangsu province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1930s, 1750s

• Name

  Tonying and Company

• Place

  Jiangsu province, Yixing, China

• Topic

  Tea, Art, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Ceramics, Yixing ware

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)