Jar with cover

Object Details

• Description

  Jar with fitted cover, full body narrowing toward flaring base, short neck; domed cover with knob and flattened overhanging rim. Chip and glaze flaws in cover rim; foot rim slightly wedge-shaped, unglazed and inset from glaze beading at base. Double ring mark on base.

  Clay: white porcelain.

  Glaze: transparent, flawed.

  Decoration: painted in underglaze blue, line and wash. Cover: two conventionalized flower heads with leafy scrolls, knob is blue, rim has four half-prunus motifs on blue "ice" ground. At lip, trefoil motif. Comb band around base of neck. Body with eight flower heads same as on cover and similar conventionalized foliate scroll.

  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-3451) to the permanent collection 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)

  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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• Date

  1700s, 1850s

• Name

  Trocadéro, Kenny & Higgins Asian Art, Inc.

• Place

  China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)