Amphora with two handles in the form of dragons

Object Details

• Description

  Stoneware with straw-colored glaze. Slightly beveled foot, concave base.

  Clay: hard, close-grained, buff-white with minute black particles and iron stains.

  Glaze: transparent, tending to pale green; finely crazed, and, in places, peeled.

  Decoration: moulded in relief .

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Silk Road Exhibition (August 18 to December 25, 2011)

  Silk Road Luxuries from China (November 5, 2011 to January 3, 2016)

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

  Chinese and Korean Ceramics (July 11, 1986 to March 13, 1987)

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

  Chinese Art (March 9, 1981 to March 12, 1982)

  Chinese Ceramics (May 9, 1980 to March 6, 1981)

  Chinese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to September 4, 1980)

  Chinese Calligraphy and Ceramics (April 18, 1977 to April 8, 1978)

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

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

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

• Origin

  Northern China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  600s

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Sui dynasty (581 - 618), Art, Green glaze, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Tang dynasty (618 - 907), Ceramics, Dragon

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)