Vase or bottle

Object Details

• Description

  Celadon vase--Lung-ch'uan type: octagonal shape with spreading foot, swelling body and short tapering neck.

  Body: fine-grained, vitreous, almost white porcelain; fired reddish brown at the footrim.

  Glaze: thick, opaque gray-green celadon with even all-over crackle, mostly stained brown.

  Decoration: 24 biscuit panels, floral patterns. Eight Daoist Immortals.

• Provenance

  To 1946

  J. Post, New York. [1]

  From 1946

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from J. Post, New York. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Chinese Ceramics: 13th–14th Century (December 20, 2014 to January 3, 2016)

  Asia in America: Views of Chinese Art from the Indianapolis Museum of Art (September 18, 2004 to March 20, 2005)

  Shades of Green and Blue: Chinese Celadon Ceramics (July 15, 1997 to September 7, 2004)

  On Becoming Immortal (May 9, 1993 to August 15, 1994)

  Chinese Art (May 9 to November 29, 1993)

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

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  J. Post

• Origin

  Longquan, Zhejiang province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1300s

• Name

  Post, J.

• Place

  China, Zhejiang province, Longquan

• Topic

  Art, Daoism, Green glaze, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Longquan ware, Ba Xian (Taoist mythology), Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368), Ceramics, Flowers

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)