Dish with design of "Three Friends"

Object Details

• Description

  Small dish with raised edges and design of "Three Friends".

  Clay: porcelain.

  Glaze: clear, bluish where thick on base.

  Decoration: hastily painted in underglaze cobalt, grayish blue: single lines just below rim and between rim and bottom; central design of rocks, bamboos, winter prunus, and peony or sweet pea.

  Mark: none.

• Provenance

  From ca. 1968

  Dorothy M. Slak, acquired ca. 1968 from Jakarta, Indonesia. [1]

  From 1986

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Dorothy M. Slak, Sarasota, Florida. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 7 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

  Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920 file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Ms. Dorothy M. Slak

• Origin

  Fujian province or Guangdong province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dorothy M. Slak

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1800s, 1910s

• Name

  Slak, Dorothy M.

• Place

  China, Fujian province, Guangdong province

• Topic

  Cobalt pigment, Porcelain, Art, Peony, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Ceramics

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)