Qingbai Ware Model of a Granary

Object Details

• Description

  Heavily potted as a vessel and cover, the vessel well modeled as a circular granary formed by an outer wall of evenly spaced columns or posts raised on square blocks and joined to the inner wall by square tenons, all raised on a plinth bisected on one side by stairs rising to a doorway fitted with a vertically sliding door inscribed with horizontal panels numbered one to six below a shaped plaque inscribed with the characters, "wu deng cang" [Jan Stuart, Oct. 21, 2002, inserts that this reading is probably incorrect. The legend appears to read "wu su cang": granary for the five grains--i.e. a full harvest], the separate cover modeled as a tiled roof surmounted by a large bud finial, covered with a glaze of grayish-blue tone, the stairs, doorway, door and plaque left in the biscuit.

• Inscriptions

  1. (From Christies Auction Catalog, sale date 9/21/01, lot 102) Inscription incised over the doorway reads: wu deng cang, "Granary of Five Harvests".

  1. (From Christies Auction Catalog, sale date 9/21/01, lot 102) Inscription incised over the doorway reads: wu deng cang, "Granary of Five Harvests".

• Provenance

  Christie's New York auction purchase, Lot # 102, sale date 9/21/01. Purchased through the bidding of Jim Lally of J. J. Lally, New York.

  Myron and Pauline Falk, New York

  C. T. Loo, New York, sold December 1949

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Black and White: Chinese Ceramics from the 10th-14th Centuries (December 18, 2004 to November 7, 2010)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Myron S. Falk, Jr. (1906-1992)

• Origin

  Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — funds provided by Lois S. Raphling and The Hassan Family Foundation in memory of Dr. David L. Raphling

• Type

  Model

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• Date

  1200s

• Name

  Falk, Myron S.

• Place

  China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Qingbai ware, Chinese Art, Tomb, Southern Song dynasty (1127 - 1279), Ceramics

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Models