Bowl

Object Details

• Description

  Bowl: deep, with sloping everted rim. Glaze chips and spalling on lip. Foot-rim has some sandy grit which adhered during firing. Everted rim has some unevenness of thickness.

  Clay: white porcelain; a few areas of orange iron oxidation on foot-rim.

  Glaze: clear feldspathic porcelain glaze of medium gloss, some pitting and impurity inclusions. Slight wear scratches on inside of bottom, considerable pitting on glazed base. Foot-rim unglazed.

  Decoration: painted in underglaze cobalt blue of good quality, line and wash. Central scene: three gentlemen and a servant at a picnic-style meal in a mountain landscape. Cavetto: a running landscape with western buildings (churches) and other foreign details as well as deer and Chinese figures. A band of conventionalized lotus petals divides cavetto and a similar mixed landscape on rim. Outside: cavetto, four oval medallions containing figures in landscape; rim, eight medallions alternating stylized birds and flowers.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)

  Chinese Ceramics (March 15, 1982 to July 10, 1986)

  A Decade of Discovery: Selected Acquisitions 1970-1980 (November 9, 1979 to May 22, 1980)

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

• Origin

  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1650s, 1630s

• Place

  China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen

• Topic

  Mountains, Landscapes, Cobalt pigment, Porcelain, Art, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Ceramics, Flowers, Jingdezhen ware, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644), Lotus

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)