Jar

National Museum of Asian Art

Object Details

Description
Jar, short straight neck, rounded shoulder, swelling body, narrows toward flaring base which rounds to inset rounded unglazed foot. Cover missing. Chip on mouth, two chips on base. Brown stains at base and on edge of mouth.
Clay: white porcelain.
Glaze: transparent; foot rim, edge of mouth and one-third of neck height unglazed (for fitting of cover).
Decoration: painted in strong underglaze cobalt blue, outline and wash. Neck, single line at top, band with four conventionalized cloud units and four ladies on a terrace on one side and a clump of shrubs and rocks on the other. Cloud scrolls are overhead and a finishing double line around the base.
Wood stand, not previously recorded.
Provenance
To 1985
Trocadéro, Kenny & Higgins Asian Art, Inc., Washington, DC, to 1985
From 1985
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Trocadéro, Kenny & Higgins Asian Art, Inc. in 1985 [1]
Notes:
[1] Transferred from the Study Collection (FSC-P-3450) to the permanent colleciton on November 14, 1986.
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History
The Peacock Room in Blue and White [2019-2022] (May 18, 2019 to June 1, 2022)
Chinamania (2016) (July 9, 2016 to June 4, 2017)
The Peacock Room (May 2, 1923 to February 21, 2011)
Previous custodian or owner
Trocadéro, Kenny & Higgins Asian Art, Inc.
Credit Line
Purchase — funds provided by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation
1662-1722
Period
Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign
Accession Number
F1986.20a-b
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
Vessel
Medium
Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze
Dimensions
H x Diam: 34.6 × 25.8 cm (13 5/8 × 10 3/16 in)
Style
Jingdezhen ware
Origin
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China
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Topic
ceramic
Jingdezhen ware
Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)
cloud
cobalt pigment
China
porcelain
Chinese Art
Record ID
fsg_F1986.20a-b
Metadata Usage (text)
Usage conditions apply
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3903387ed-1971-4d70-b2dd-e4090a9553f3
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