Cizhou ware vase

Object Details

• Description

  Ovoid shaped vase with high foot, trumpet shaped mouth with lip folded over.

  Clay: buff gray, fired hard.

  Glaze: transparent with irregular crackle.

  Decoration: lotus pattern in dark brown and white slips and incised lines.

• Provenance

  To 1929

  C. T. Loo & Company, New York to 1929 [1]

  From 1929

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from C. T. Loo & Company, New York in 1929 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

• 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)

  Chinese Flower Paintings (March 18 to September 22, 1983)

  Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics (March 7, 1957 to January 1, 1963)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics, 1955 (September 19, 1955 to November 10, 1955)

  Centennial Exhibition, Gallery 13 (November 10, 1955 to March 1, 1957)

  Untitled Exhibition, East Asian Ceramics and Paintings, East Corridor (January 8, 1947 to ---)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1946 (May 6, 1946 to November 17, 1955)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics and Paintings (November 14, 1944 to May 3, 1946)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting and Ceramics, 1943 (March 22, 1943 to November 13, 1944)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting and Ceramics (March 14, 1931 to March 22, 1943)

  Chinese Painting and Pottery (May 2, 1923 to March 22, 1943)

• Previous custodian or owner

  C. T. Loo & Company (1914-1948)

• Origin

  Guantai kilns, Hebei province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1100s

• Name

  C. T. Loo & Company

• Place

  Guantai kilns, China, Hebei province

• Topic

  Jin dynasty (1115 - 1234), Art, Cizhou ware, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Ceramics, Northern Song dynasty (960 - 1127), Lotus

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)