Modern copy of northern black ware tea bowl of Cizhou type

Object Details

• Description

  Clay: hard buff stoneware covered with a pinkish brown slip of fine sandy texture.

  Glaze: light reddish brown at rim running into thick glossy black in bottom and in big gobs half-way down outside.

• Label

  The classic Chinese brown-glazed tea bowl, made at the Jian kilns in Fujian province, was imitated by potters working at the various northern kilns that made Cizhou-type wares. They concealed the local white clay body with brown slip to resemble the dark brown Jian-ware body. This bowl is a copy, in turn, of the nothern Jin dynasty (1115–1234) bowl, but its maker shaped a more conical form and cut the foot rim with an everted shape not found in the original.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

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

  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)

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1930s, 1870s

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Tea, Art, Cizhou ware, Copy, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Ceramics, Modern period (1912 - present)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)