Fragment of a small olive-green celadon bowl

Object Details

• Description

  Shape: Fragment of the wall and mouthrim of a small celadon bowl. The shard is 0.6 cm thick at its base and 0.3 cm thick at the rim.

  Clay: Relatively fine, dark gray stoneware with a modest number of black inclusions. There are only a few very small air pockets.

  Glaze: Both the inner and outer walls of the shard are covered with a thick coating of a clear, olive-green glaze which shows a broad crackle pattern. The mouthrim is completely glazed.

  Decoration: The cavetto is decorated with combed incising in what appears to be a freely drawn, sweeping floral design. There is also an incised underglaze ring approximately 1.0 cm below the rim on the outside wall of the bowl.

  Marks: None.

• Provenance

  To 1957

  John A. Pope (1906-1982), Washington DC, collected between August 1956 and April 1957 in Angkor, Cambodia. [1]

  From 1957

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of John A. Pope, Washington DC [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record. See also “Ceramics in Mainland and Southeast Asia: Collections in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery”, copy in object file, Collections Management Office.

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

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dr. John Alexander Pope (1906-1982)

• Origin

  Fujian province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of John A. Pope

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1200s, 1300s

• Name

  Pope, John Alexander

• Place

  China, Fujian province

• Topic

  Art, Green glaze, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Longquan ware, Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368), Ceramics, Flowers

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)