Object Details
- Description
- Monochrome -- Southern Sung Kuan style.
- Vase: small, bottle-shaped; tall neck with ring in low relief around center; flaring lip.
- Body: not exposed; presumably fine-grained, pure white.
- Glaze: pale, opaque, blue-gray, so-called "clair de lune", very fine matte surface; covers entire vessel except footrim which is dressed with dark chocolate brown. Four character mark of the Yongzheng period: seal characters in underglaze blue, on base.
- Marks
- Four character mark of the Yongzheng period: seal characters in underglaze blue, on base.
- Label
- Eighteenth-century revivals of Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279) Guan ware can be quite convincing. Many Southern Song originals feature crackled glaze, but some of the finest have uncrazed, matte glaze, which provided the inspiration for this copy. The dark purple foot of this vase resembles genuine Guanware, but the foot rim was dressed with iron to produce the dark color; the clay body is actually white porcelain clay.
- Provenance
- To 1946
- T.H. Ching, New York. [1]
- From 1946
- Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from T.H. Ching, New York. [2]
- Notes:
- [1] Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920, Collections Management Office.
- [2] See note 1.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Shades of Green and Blue: Chinese Celadon Ceramics (July 15, 1997 to September 7, 2004)
- Centennial Exhibition, Gallery 13 (November 10, 1955 to March 1, 1957)
- Special Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1946 (August 7, 1946 to January 7, 1947)
- Previous custodian or owner
- T. H. Ching
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- 1723-1735
- Period
- Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign mark and period
- Accession Number
- F1946.24
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Porcelain with Ru-style glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 10.1 x 7 cm (4 x 2 3/4 in)
- Style
- Jingdezhen ware
- Origin
- Imperial kiln, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- ceramic
- Jingdezhen ware
- Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)
- China
- porcelain
- Chinese Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1946.24
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye37acb55e5-a28f-4fb0-b0ac-408eb0bb4111
