Covered box

Object Details

• Description

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

  Clay: porcelain, grayish-white; flange of body rim chipped and worn.

  Glaze: translucent white with bluish tint where thick, matte, coarsely crackled and stained in some areas of crackle; interior of body and lid glazed unevenly; base unglazed.

  Decoration: in underglaze cobalt. Double ring surrounding central medallion containing six-pointed foliate motif. Four foliate clusters evenly spaced around edge, above single line near rim. On body, single line below rim and single line above base framing two sprays of three leafy branches each, alternating with two crescent-shaped motifs.

  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 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 Frasché (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

• Place

  China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Containers