Jar

Object Details

• Description

  Jar, short straight neck, rounded shoulder, swelling body, narrows toward flaring base which rounds to inset rounded unglazed foot. Cover missing. Chip on mouth, two chips on base. Brown stains at base and on edge of mouth.

  Clay: white porcelain.

  Glaze: transparent; foot rim, edge of mouth and one-third of neck height unglazed (for fitting of cover).

  Decoration: painted in strong underglaze cobalt blue, outline and wash. Neck, single line at top, band with four conventionalized cloud units and four ladies on a terrace on one side and a clump of shrubs and rocks on the other. Cloud scrolls are overhead and a finishing double line around the base.

  Wood stand, not previously recorded.

• Provenance

  To 1985

  Trocadéro, Kenny & Higgins Asian Art, Inc., Washington, DC, to 1985

  From 1985

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Trocadéro, Kenny & Higgins Asian Art, Inc. in 1985 [1]

  Notes:

  [1] Transferred from the Study Collection (FSC-P-3450) to the permanent colleciton on November 14, 1986.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  The Peacock Room in Blue and White (May 18, 2019 to June 1, 2022)

  Chinamania (2016) (July 9, 2016 to June 4, 2017)

  The Peacock Room (May 2, 1923 to February 21, 2011)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Trocadéro, Kenny & Higgins Asian Art, Inc.

• Origin

  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — funds provided by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1720s, 1660s

• Name

  Trocadéro, Kenny & Higgins Asian Art, Inc.

• Place

  China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen

• Topic

  Cobalt pigment, Porcelain, Art, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Cloud, Ceramics, Jingdezhen ware

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)