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.
- Date
- 1662-1722
- Period
- Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign
- Origin
- Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China
- Topic
- ceramic
- Jingdezhen ware
- Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)
- cloud
- cobalt pigment
- China
- porcelain
- Chinese Art
- Related Online Resources
- 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
- F1986.20a-b
- Type
- Vessel
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- 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
- Record ID
- fsg_F1986.20a-b
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