Jar

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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.

Credit Line

Purchase — funds provided by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation

Date

1662-1722

Period

Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign

Accession Number

F1986.20a-b

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

Vessel

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

Origin

Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China

On View

West Building (Freer Gallery of Art), Gallery 12: The Peacock Room in Blue and White

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Data Source

National Museum of Asian Art

Topic

ceramic

Jingdezhen ware

Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)

cloud

cobalt pigment

China

porcelain

Chinese Art

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