Jar with mismatched lid

Object Details

• Description

  Small covered jar on pedestal foot, flaming jewel knob on lid.

  Clay: light gray, gritty. On base, concealed by chalky yellowish powdery efflorescence.

  Glaze: green glaze, lustrous pale sea green, coarsely crackled, deeper in tone where pooled around foot. Interior of body glazed; interior of lid unglazed.

  Decoration: on body, incised under glaze, single line below rim, single line at base of neck, and single line on shoulder close to neck. On lid, incised under glaze, single line around dome.

• Provenance

  From 1957

  Dean Frasché, collected in 1957 from Hanoi, Vietnam. [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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dean Frasché (1906-1994)

• Origin

  Fujian province or Zhejiang province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dean Frasché

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1600s, 1690s

• Name

  Frasche, Dean

• Place

  China, Fujian province, Zhejiang province

• Topic

  Art, Longquan type ware, Green glaze, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Ceramics, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)