Object Details
- Description
- Vase, baluster type, sometimes called "yen-yen" vase, swelling body, long neck with trumpet mouth, flared slightly at base which rolls neatly to a wedge-shaped, unglazed foot-rim.
- Clay: fine white Jingdezhen porcelain.
- Glaze: transparent, glossy, some pin-holes especially on glazed base.
- Decoration: painted in vivid underglaze cobalt blue, line and wash. Neck and body have similar design of pine needles, rocks and plants painted in blue on white ground and a prunus tree reserved in white and in slight relief against irregular areas of blue wash with feathery edges. Details are drawn in blue. Four blue lines separate neck and body areas; double lines under lip and at base. This design is also seen with magnolia subject.
- Although there is no mark, it can be assigned to the Kangxi period.
- Condition: excellent.
- Wood stand, not previously recorded.
- Provenance
- The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Viriginia [1]
- 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 [2]
- Notes:
- [1] According to information in the object record.
- [2] Transferred from Freer Study Collection (FSC-P-3449) to the Permanent Collection 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
- The Chrysler Museum
- Trocadéro, Kenny & Higgins Asian Art, Inc.
- Date
- 1662-1722
- Period
- Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign
- Origin
- Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China
- Topic
- ceramic
- tree
- pine tree
- Jingdezhen ware
- Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)
- plum blossom
- cobalt pigment
- China
- porcelain
- Chinese Art
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- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Credit Line
- Purchase — funds provided by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Accession Number
- F1986.19a-b
- Type
- Vessel
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Medium
- Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 46 × 22.4 cm (18 1/8 × 8 13/16 in)
- Style
- Jingdezhen ware
- Record ID
- fsg_F1986.19a-b
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