Wajiaping ware ewer

Object Details

• Description

  Ewer, short tapered octagonal spout, triple strap handle, two smaller triple-strap loop handles, all high on shoulder; thrown shape, flat base, extensive gold lacquer restorations on handle and lip.

  Clay: light brown stoneware, light in weight.

  Glaze: Straw color, transparent, finely crackled alkaline glaze stopping at foot over a whitish slip which stops 1 to 1 1/2 cm. above foot. Patches of brown.

  Decoration: Sprig-molded appliques of 3 figures with patches of iron brown applied irregularly over them.

• Provenance

  Okudaira Takehiko [1]

  To 1982

  Senator and Mrs. Hugh Scott, Washington, DC, to 1982

  From 1982

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Senator and Mrs. Hugh Scott in 1982

  Notes:

  [1] According to Dr. Yutaka Mino, Okudaira Takehiko discusses this object in his article, "Chosen shutsudo no Shina tojiki zakken (Brief note on Chinese ceramics found in Korea)," Toji vol. 9, no. 2 (1937), pp. 1-11, fig. 2-B.

  At the time Okudaira wrote his article, the object, which had been found in a stone pagoda in a foundation in Korea, was part of his personal collection (see Curatorial Note 3, T. Lawton, 1984, in the object record).

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Rediscovering Korea’s Past (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)

  Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires (May 9, 1993 to January 28, 2007)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Okudaira Takehiko 奥平武彦 (1900-1943)

  Senator and Mrs. Hugh Scott

• Origin

  Changsha, Hunan province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of The Honorable and Mrs. Hugh Scott

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 14: Rediscovering Korea's Past

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• Date

  800s

• Name

  Okudaira, Takehiko, Scott, Hugh

• Place

  Hunan province, China, Changsha

• Topic

  Art, Lacquer repair, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Lacquer, Wajiaping ware, Tang dynasty (618 - 907), Ceramics

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes