Rouleau-shaped vase
Object Details
- Description
- Cylindrical vase with short neck (rouleau shape);Vase (rouleau shape), with wood stand.
- Clay: white porcelain.
- Glaze: clear porcelain glaze.
- Decoration: painted in underglaze cobalt blue. On body seven bands of varying conventionalized and floral scroll motifs, two (?) medallions, central widest band has dragons in reserve. Neck has upright plantain leaves. Underglaze blue double ring on base.
- Wood stand, previously not recorded.
- Provenance
- To 1982
- Mr. Myron S. Falk Jr. (1906-1992) and Mrs. Pauline Baerwald Falk (1910-2000), New York to 1982
- From 1982
- Freer Gallery of Art, given by Mr. Myron S. Falk Jr. and Mrs. Pauline Baerwald Falk in 1982
- 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)
- Chinamania (2010) (August 7, 2010 to August 7, 2011)
- The Peacock Room (May 2, 1923 to February 21, 2011)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Myron S. Falk, Jr. (1906-1992)
- Pauline Baerwald Falk (1910-2000)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Myron S. Falk, Jr.
- 1662-1722
- Period
- Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign
- Accession Number
- F1982.16a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear colorless glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 27 × 10.8 cm (10 5/8 × 4 1/4 in)
- Style
- Jingdezhen ware
- Origin
- Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- 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
- flower
- Jingdezhen ware
- Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)
- Kangxi reign (1662 - 1722)
- cobalt pigment
- China
- porcelain
- Chinese Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1982.16a-b
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3bf39d3b2-439a-4c4f-94e6-65ba3b6aa174
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