Fragment of the base and footring of a celadon dish

Object Details

• Description

  Shape: Fragment of the base and footring of a celadon dish. Wheel thrown. The base of the dish is 1.8 cm thick. The 1.0 cm-wide footring extends 0.7 cm below the base.

  Clay: Fine gray stoneware clay with many extremely small air pockets and fine gray inclusions. The body has burned beige-orange in the unglazed stacking ring on the bottom of the dish.

  Glaze: Thick apple-green celadon glaze covers the base and footring. The bubbly, translucent glaze is crackled, especially on the bottom of the dish. An unglazed ring inside the footring surrounds an inner glazed area. This ring was used to support the dish during firing.

  Decoration: There are traces of underglazed incised floral decoration. It is not possible to discern the motif.

  Marks: None.

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dr. John Alexander Pope (1906-1982)

• 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.

• Origin

  Longquan, Zhejiang province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of John A. Pope

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1300s

• Name

  Pope, John Alexander

• Place

  China, Zhejiang province, Longquan

• Topic

  Art, Green glaze, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Longquan ware, Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368), Flowers, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)