Fragment of the rim and fluted cavetto of a celadon dish

Object Details

• Description

  Shape: Fragment of the rim and cavetto of a relatively large celadon dish. Mouth of the dish was "scooped" upward, meaning that the profile of the dish flattens at the top of the cavetto for about 1.3 cm before the rim sweeps sharply up another 0.6 cm. The shard wall is approximately 0.8 cm thick.

  Clay: Very fine, very light gray stoneware clay with many extremely fine black inclusions and a few small air pockets.

  Glaze: Thick, unctuous, bubbly, apple-green celadon which completely covers the wall and mouthrim of the dish, inside and out. The glaze is uncrackled. The outside of the dish wall is grossly disfigured from a firing accident where the dish came into contact with kiln debris or another ceramic vessel.

  Decoration: Impressed fluting in the cavetto of the dish extends from the mirror to the bottom edge of the scooped mouth.

  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

  Longquan, Zhejiang province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of John A. Pope

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1300s

• Name

  Pope, John Alexander

• Place

  China, Zhejiang province, Longquan

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)