Covered box

Object Details

• Description

  Round box with domed lid, tapering body, and flat base.

  Clay: porcelain; white with areas of orange oxidation at edge of glaze and on base.

  Glaze: translucent white, somewhat grainy in texture and matte on surface; on body glaze edges slightly above beveled edge of base; interior glazed, with scars in glaze in bottom; edge of glaze inside lid neatly trimmed.

  Decoration: in underglaze cobalt. Double ring in center of domed lid, surrounded by two of the eight Buddhist precious objects, the cash and the pair of books, framed by streamers and random dots; single ring just above edge. On body, single ring just below edge; two plant motifs in alternation, repeating three times each; single ring just above base.

  Mark: none.

• Marks

  Frasche number 586, written on adhesive label on inside of lid.

• 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 1 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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dean F. Frasche (1906-1994)

• Origin

  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dean Frasché

• Type

  Container

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1590s, 1400s

• Name

  Frasche, Dean F.

• Place

  China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen

• Topic

  Cobalt pigment, Porcelain, Art, Clear glaze, Chinese Art, Ceramics, Plants, Jingdezhen ware, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

• Culture

  Buddhists, Chinese

• Object Type

  Containers