Foot and lower wall of iron-glazed stoneware bowl

Object Details

• Description

  Shape: Footring and lower wall of a small bowl. Unglazed interior of the bevelled foot ring has a conical protrusion which rises 0.2 - 0.3 cm above the bottom of the bowl. Footring is 4.5 cm in diameter. The wall of the bowl is roughly 0.4 cm thick.

  Clay: Fine-grained, dark gray with few inclusions and many small air pockets. Body burned dark tan where exposed to kiln atmosphere during firing.

  Glaze: Light tan/caramel-colored, iron-brown glaze.

  Decoration: Freely drawn underglaze iron/manganese brush strokes which appear dark brown under the caramel glaze. There is also a darker, almost black decoration executed in the same freely painted strokes which have burned through the glaze and which appear a milky bluish-white in color. It is not clear what the motif of the decoration was.

  Marks: None.

• Provenance

  To 1957

  Abu Ridho, Jakarta, Indonesia. [1]

  1957

  John A. Pope (1906-1982), Washington DC, gift of Abu Ridho, Jakarta, Indonesia. [2]

  From 1957

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of John A. Pope, Washington DC [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See Curatorial Remarks 3 and 4 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] See note 1. See also object file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Abu Ridho (born 1927)

  Dr. John Alexander Pope (1906-1982)

• Origin

  Qionglai, Sichuan province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of John A. Pope

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  900s, 800s

• Name

  Pope, John Alexander, Ridho, Abu

• Place

  Qionglai, China, Sichuan province

• Topic

  Art, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Tang dynasty (618 - 907), Ceramics, Qionglai ware

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)