Cizhou ware jar with wide mouth and two strap handles

Object Details

• Description

  Tz'u-chou ware -- Northern black ware. A large jar with a wide mouth and two strap-handles; bold foot ring.

  Body: porcellanous stoneware; buff colored clay.

  Glaze and decoration: the shoulder and strap-handles are covered with a delicate applied ribbing under a lustrous dark brown glaze having a minute gray speckling; lower body with a shiny brown glaze roughened by adhesions.

• Provenance

  To 1945

  Mathias Komor, New York. [1]

  From 1945

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Mathias Komor, New York. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Black and White: Chinese Ceramics from the 10th-14th Centuries (December 18, 2004 to November 7, 2010)

  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)

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

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1946 (May 6, 1946 to November 17, 1955)

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mathias Komor (1909-1984)

• Origin

  Henan, Hebei, or Shandong province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1100s

• Name

  Komor, Mathias

• Place

  China, Shandong province, Henan, Hebei

• Topic

  Jin dynasty (1115 - 1234), Art, Cizhou ware, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Northern Black ware, Ceramics, Northern Song dynasty (960 - 1127)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)