Object Details
- Description
- Vase, baluster type, sometimes called a "yen-yen" vase. Long neck with trumpet mouth, swelling body which narrows to a slightly flaring base rolling neatly to a wedge-shaped foot rim, set in, possibly designed as in other porcelains of the period, to fit a stand. This is a typical Kangxi silhouette. Although there is no reign mark, it can be assigned to the Kangxi period.
- Clay: fine white porcelain.
- Glaze: transparent,glossy, some pin holes, inclusions of impurities, bare foot-rim, base glazed with underglaze blue double ring.
- Decoration: painted in brilliant underglaze cobalt blue in outline and wash. Simple paired cloud forms in bands below lip and above foot. On neck two spotted deer in a rocky landscape of pines, cranes, and clouds. On body, a similar landscape in larger scale. Here the stag is approaching a doe.
- Wood stand, not previously recorded.
- Provenance
- S. N. Ferris Luboshez (1896-1984) [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 the Freer Study Collection (FSC-P-3448) 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)
- Chinese Ceramics: Art and Technology (November 19, 1984 to February 24, 1985)
- Chinese Art from the Ferris Luboshez Collection (March 23 to April 30, 1972)
- The Peacock Room (May 2, 1923 to February 21, 2011)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Sergius N. Ferris Luboshez (1896-1984)
- Trocadéro, Kenny & Higgins Asian Art, Inc.
- Date
- 1662-1722
- Period
- Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign
- Origin
- Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China
- Topic
- ceramic
- landscape
- crane
- Jingdezhen ware
- deer
- Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)
- cloud
- cobalt pigment
- China
- porcelain
- Chinese Art
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Credit Line
- Purchase — funds provided by the Women's Committee of the Smithsonian Associates
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Accession Number
- F1986.4a-b
- Type
- Vessel
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Medium
- Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 46.1 × 20.8 cm (18 1/8 × 8 3/16 in)
- Style
- Jingdezhen ware
- Record ID
- fsg_F1986.4a-b
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