Object Details
- Description
- Tea caddy with short upright neck, nearly horizontal shoulder, cylindrical body, and flat base; matching cylindrical lid with flat top.
- Clay: porcelain.
- Glaze: clear, colorless glaze.
- Decoration: in cobalt pigment under the glaze, with design on vertical faces of lid and vessel of scattered Chinese coins, framed above and below by floral borders; on shoulder of vessel, four bats.
- Mark: on base of vessel and top of lid: Jintang Faji.
- Marks
- On base of vessel and top of lid: Jintang Faji.
- Provenance
- By 1974
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, New York City, acquired in Thailand, by 1974 [1]
- From 2004
- Freer Gallery of Art, given by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in 2004
- Notes:
- [1] This object was acquired by Doris Duke as part of a large collection of Southeast Asian art intended for use in a recreation of a Thai village to be built in Hawai'i. This project is described in Nancy Tingley, Doris Duke: The Southeast Asian Art Collection (New York: The Foundation for Southeast Asian Art and Culture, distributed by University of Hawai'i Press, 2003). Ms. Duke made purchasing trips to Bangkok in 1961, 1964, and 1965. In 1972 the collections were shipped to the Duke estate in New Jersey.
- Additional buying trips in 1973 and 1974 were the last major occasions to acquire art for the project, which was never realized. While the dates the purchase of this object cannot be confirmed, it is probable that it was acquired in the early phase of shopping, in the 1960s (according to Curatorial Note 5, Louise A. Cort, April 5, 2004, in the object record).
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Ceramics from Thailand (July 1, 2013 to March 2, 2014)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (Established 1996)
- Credit Line
- Gift from Doris Duke's Southeast Asian Art Collection
- late 19th century
- Period
- Qing dynasty
- Accession Number
- F2004.36a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear, colorless glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam (overall): 11.5 × 8.2 cm (4 1/2 × 3 1/4 in)
- Style
- Jingdezhen ware
- Origin
- Jingdezhen kilns, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China
- Related Online Resources
- Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia
- 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
- flower
- Jingdezhen ware
- Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)
- tea
- bat
- cobalt pigment
- China
- porcelain
- clear glaze
- Chinese Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F2004.36a-b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye389b04c40-9376-4bb0-bd61-fa04bee00837
