Zhangzhou ware covered box with design of rabbit in moon

Object Details

• Description

  Covered box with domed rim, tapering body and recessed foot.

  Clay: porcelain, cream on rim, buff on base.

  Glaze: translucent white with bluish cast; interior glazed except for rim, base partially glazed; scars of stacking material on edge of foot.

  Decoration: incised single horizontal grooves at upper edge of body and lower edge of lid. Incised vertical grooves, closely spaced, on body between horizontal groove on foot and on lid between horizonal line and painted decoration. In center of lid, in grayish-blue underglaze cobalt, ring enclosing design of rabbit glancing at edge of moon, with blue wash background.

  Mark: none.

• Provenance

  From 1959

  Dean Frasché, collected in 1959 from Djakarta, Indonesia. [1]

  To 1989

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Dean Frasché, Greenwich, Connecticut. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 3 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

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

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  The Tea Ceremony as Melting Pot (January 31 to July 18, 2004)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dean Frasché (1906-1994)

• Origin

  Zhangzhou kilns, Fujian province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dean Frasché

• Type

  Container

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1630s, 1560s

• Name

  Frasche, Dean

• Place

  China, Zhangzhou kilns, Fujian province

• Topic

  Rabbits, Cobalt pigment, Porcelain, Art, Animals, Clear glaze, Moon, Chinese Art, Outer space, Ceramics, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644), Zhangzhou ware

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Containers