Zhangzhou ware jar with dragon design
Object Details
- Description
- Jar, inverted pear shape with low straight neck, thickened lip and low footrim; four loop handles.
- Body: coarse grayish white porcelain.
- Glaze: thin, uneven, transparent rusty-tan, crackled and pitted.
- Decoration: in underglaze blue, two dragons among clouds.
- Provenance
- To 1906
- Sir William Van Horne (1843-1915), to 1906 [1]
- From 1906 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), given by Sir William Van Horne in 1906 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] Object file.
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing)
- The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019)
- The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Sir William Van Horne (1843-1915) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- late 16th-early 17th century
- Period
- Ming dynasty
- Accession Number
- F1906.18
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear, colorless glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 27.2 × 23.9 cm (10 11/16 × 9 7/16 in)
- Style
- Zhangzhou ware
- Origin
- Nansheng kiln group, Zhangzhou city, Fujian province, China
- On View
- Freer Gallery 12: The Peacock Room Comes to America
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- The Story of the Beautiful
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- ceramic
- dragon
- Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)
- Zhangzhou ware
- China
- porcelain
- Chinese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1906.18
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3eea35a79-2faa-4c4c-8bc6-d8739ee44e88
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