Dish with enamel decoration

Object Details

• Description

  Small dish with plain rim.

  Clay: buff stoneware.

  Glaze: transparent with fine crackle.

  Decoration: white slip; a chrysanthemum in red and green enamel colors; slight staining inside and out.

• Provenance

  To 1956

  Howard Hollis & Company, Cleveland, Ohio. [1]

  From 1956

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Howard Hollis & Company, Cleveland, Ohio. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Howard Hollis and Company (established 1949)

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1200s

• Name

  Howard Hollis and Company

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Jin dynasty (1115 - 1234), Art, Chrysanthemum, Cizhou ware, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)