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Object Details
- Description
- Vase with pear-shaped body and tall slightly flaring neck.
- Clay: light gray, vitreous, brown at exposed footrim.
- Glaze: thick, opaque lavender gray-blue with purple splashes; gray-blue glaze under foot.
- Provenance
- From 1947 to 1950
- C. T. Loo & Company, New York, from November 1947 [1]
- From 1950
- Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from C. T. Loo & Company on June 28, 1950 [2]
- Notes:
- [1] See C. T. Loo's stockcard no. CHL 7/939: "Porcellanous bottle vase, on high foot ring, pear shaped body with tall tubular neck expanding towards the lip. Entirely coated with a grayish blue glaze with large purplish red splashes imitating clouds so called sky after the rain. Chun ware SUNG," C. T. Loo & Frank Caro Archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy in object file. According to an annotation on the stockcard, the object was acquired in China. On January 5, 1950, it was taken by Loo to the Freer Gallery for examination.
- [2] See C. T. Loo's invoice, dated June 28, 1950, copy in object file.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Chinese Ceramics: Glazed Ceramics of the Tenth through Thirteenth Century (March 9, 1987 to July 19, 1988)
- Chinese Ceramics (March 15, 1982 to July 10, 1986)
- Chinese Art (March 9, 1981 to March 12, 1982)
- Chinese Ceramics (May 9, 1980 to March 6, 1981)
- Chinese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to September 4, 1980)
- Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)
- Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics, 1955 (September 19, 1955 to November 10, 1955)
- Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1946 (May 6, 1946 to November 17, 1955)
- Previous custodian or owner
- C.T. Loo & Company (1914-1948)
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- 12th century
- Period
- Northern Song or Jin dynasty
- Accession Number
- F1950.8
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with Jun glaze and copper pigment
- Dimensions
- H x W: 28 x 12.8 cm (11 x 5 1/16 in)
- Style
- Jun ware
- Origin
- Henan 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
- Jun ware
- Northern Song dynasty (960 - 1127)
- Jin dynasty (1115 - 1234)
- China
- stoneware
- Chinese Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1950.8
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3ac178c53-14a8-445a-ae0f-c6d55a581cb3
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