Qingbai ware bowl with incised decoration

Object Details

• Description

  Bowl with slightly everted lip and slightly concave foot.

  Body: white porcelain, burned pale reddish brown where exposed on foot.

  Glaze: pale transparent blue filled with minute bubbles.

  Decoration: inside only, incised in the body, principally comb-marks.

• Provenance

  To 1944

  Mathias Komor, New York to 1944

  From 1944

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Mathias Komor, New York in 1944 [1]

  Notes:

  [1] Undated folder sheet note. For additional information, see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

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

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics (March 7, 1957 to January 1, 1963)

  Centennial Exhibition, Gallery 13 (November 10, 1955 to March 1, 1957)

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mathias Komor (1909-1984)

• Origin

  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1100s, 1000s

• Name

  Komor, Mathias

• Place

  China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Song dynasty (960 - 1279), Qingbai ware, Chinese Art, Ceramics, Northern Song dynasty (960 - 1127)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)