Cizhou ware bottle

Object Details

• Description

  Vase, mei-ping form with saucer mouth; lip chipped in several places.

  Clay: gray stoneware.

  Glaze: appears as two layers, dark green over a pale green to colorless; fine crackle; over approximately half the surface the green glaze has disappeared; base and part of foot rim glazed.

  Decoration: incised and painted in white slip under the glaze; six formalized flower sprays, two butterflies spaced between petal bands at base and top of shoulder.

• Provenance

  From at least 1967 to 1968

  Eugene Meyer (1875-1959) and Agnes E. Meyer (1887-1970), Washington, DC and Mt. Kisco, NY, from at least 1967 [1]

  From 1968

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Agnes E. Meyer in 1968 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] The object is included in Agnes E. Meyer’s Deed of Gift, listed as no. 17 in the document’s Annex, dated July 24, 1967, copy in object file.

  [2] See Agnes E. Meyer’s Deed of Gift, cited in note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer

• Origin

  Shaanxi province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1100s, 1000s

• Name

  Meyer, Eugene and Agnes E.

• Place

  Shaanxi province, China

• Topic

  Copper-green lead glaze, Art, Animals, Insects, White slip, Cizhou ware, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Ceramics, Flowers, Northern Song dynasty (960 - 1127), Butterflies

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)