Cizhou ware jar

Object Details

• Description

  Vase on expanding foot ring, high bulbous shoulder; short, wide neck. Repairs and repainting on lip and shoulder.

  Clay: buff stoneware.

  Glaze: thin, transparent; black inside.

  Decoration: figures and floral in panels and bands, painted in black and brown on cream slip under the glaze.

  2. Glaze: thin: transparent, over decoration; black inside; base unglazed.

  Decoration: painted in black and brown on cream slip; three roughly lozenge-shaped panels in waist to shoulder band, two with figures in landscape, one with cranes and bamboo, scroll fill between panels; wide lotus panel band at base; other bands of various foliate and floral or cloud scroll pattern.

• Previous custodian or owner

  Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer ((1875-1959) and (1887-1970))

• Provenance

  From at least 1916 to 1968

  Eugene Meyer (1875-1959) and Agnes E. Meyer (1887-1970), New York, NY, Washington, DC and Mt. Kisco, NY, from at least 1916 [1]

  From 1968

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Agnes E. Meyer in 1968 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer lent the jar to the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition in 1916,, see S. C Bosch Reitz, Catalogue of An Exhibition of Early Chinese Pottery and Sculpture, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1916), cat. 323 (ill.).

  [2] The object is included in Agnes E. Meyer’s Deed of Gift, listed as no. 34 in the document’s Annex, dated July 24, 1967, copy in object file.

• Origin

  Yuzhou kilns, henan province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1590s, 1500s

• Name

  Meyer, Eugene and Agnes E.

• Place

  Yuzhou kilns, China, henan province

• Topic

  Art, Cizhou ware, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368), Flowers, Crane, Lotus, Landscapes, White slip, Cloud, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644), Bamboo

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)