Dish

Object Details

• Description

  Dish: wide base, curved flaring sides, heavily potted, slightly rolled rim, rounded foot-rim, base cut with center depression, rim chip, foot-rim chipped for several inches.

  Clay: very pale gray celadon porcelain with brick-red surface oxidation where exposed in firing.

  Glaze: celadon of slightly olive cast, surface abraded from use on inside, less so on outside, foot-rim originally glazed has been worn and/or ground down. Red unglazed ring where supported in kiln with center spots of glaze.

  Decoration: carved in paste. Inside: center, lattice-like interlocking lozenges in a diamond pattern (reminiscnet of the "cash" pattern) with a quatrefoil frame. In cavetto is a lotus and chrysanthemum scroll, and outside a foliate scroll based on the single chrysanthemum.

• Provenance

  To 1974

  Louis S. Rothchild, Washington, DC [1]

  From 1974

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Louis S. Rothchild, Washington, DC [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Object file, folder sheet note dated May 17, 1996. Also see Curatorial Remark 5 in the object record.

  [2] The object was transferred from the Study Collection to the Permanent Collection. See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Louis S. Rothchild

• Origin

  Longquan, Zhejiang province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Louis S. Rothchild

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1500s, 1400s

• Name

  Rothchild, Louis S.

• Place

  China, Zhejiang province, Longquan

• Topic

  Art, Chrysanthemum, Green glaze, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Longquan ware, Flowers, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644), Lotus

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)