Yixing ware Hexagonal teapot
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Object Details
- Artist
- Shi Dabin (active 1597-1640)
- Description
- Hexagonal tea-pot of dark gray unglazed Yixing clay. Inscription of seven characters.
- Inscriptions
- Inscription of seven characters
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Chinese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to September 4, 1980)
- Ming Dynasty Paintings (December 4, 1978 to June 14, 1979)
- Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting and Ceramics, 1943 (March 22, 1943 to November 13, 1944)
- Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting and Ceramics (March 14, 1931 to March 22, 1943)
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- 1610
- Period
- Ming dynasty
- Accession Number
- F1939.62a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Unglazed stoneware
- Dimensions
- H x W: 6.9 x 13.8 cm (2 11/16 x 5 7/16 in)
- Style
- Yixing ware
- Origin
- Yixing, Jiangsu province, China
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- ceramic
- Yixing ware
- Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)
- tea
- China
- stoneware
- Chinese Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1939.62a-b
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3a020de1d-3423-4434-8444-a21ace043f49
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