Zhangzhou ware dish with design of phoenix and peony

Object Details

• Description

  Dish with design of phoenix and peony.

  Clay: porcelain:

  Glaze: gray-toned clear glaze. Heavy deposits of grit adhere to the glaze on the footrim.

  Decoration: in cobalt pigment under the glaze.

• Provenance

  From the 1960s to 1991

  Mr. Jerome A. and Mrs. Joan Lebold Cohen, New York, NY, acquired in Indonesia in the 1960s [1]

  From 1991

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Mr. Jerome A. and Mrs. Joan Lebold Cohen in 1991

  Notes:

  [1] According to verbal communication that was documented by Louise Cort on February 10,

  1992.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  The Peacock Room in Blue and White (May 18, 2019 to June 1, 2022)

  Nine Deaths, Two Births: Xu Bing's Phoenix Project (April 27 to September 2, 2013)

  The Peacock Room (May 2, 1923 to February 21, 2011)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Cohen and Joan Lebold

• Origin

  Zhangzhou kilns, Fujian province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Joan Lebold and Jerome A. Cohen

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1630s, 1560s

• Name

  Cohen, Jerome A.

• Place

  China, Zhangzhou kilns, Fujian province

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Animals, Peony, Chinese Art, Birds, Phoenix, Ceramics, Flowers, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644), Zhangzhou ware

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)