Vase with design of deer in a landscape

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Description

Vase, baluster type, sometimes called a "yen-yen" vase. Long neck with trumpet mouth, swelling body which narrows to a slightly flaring base rolling neatly to a wedge-shaped foot rim, set in, possibly designed as in other porcelains of the period, to fit a stand. This is a typical Kangxi silhouette. Although there is no reign mark, it can be assigned to the Kangxi period.

Clay: fine white porcelain.

Glaze: transparent,glossy, some pin holes, inclusions of impurities, bare foot-rim, base glazed with underglaze blue double ring.

Decoration: painted in brilliant underglaze cobalt blue in outline and wash. Simple paired cloud forms in bands below lip and above foot. On neck two spotted deer in a rocky landscape of pines, cranes, and clouds. On body, a similar landscape in larger scale. Here the stag is approaching a doe.

Wood stand, not previously recorded.

Provenance

S. N. Ferris Luboshez (1896-1984) [1]

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 [2]

Notes:

[1] According to information in the object record.

[2] Transferred from the Freer Study Collection (FSC-P-3448) to the Permanent Collection 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)

Chinese Ceramics: Art and Technology (November 19, 1984 to February 24, 1985)

Chinese Art from the Ferris Luboshez Collection (March 23 to April 30, 1972)

The Peacock Room (May 2, 1923 to February 21, 2011)

Previous custodian or owner

Sergius N. Ferris Luboshez (1896-1984)

Trocadéro, Kenny & Higgins Asian Art, Inc.

Credit Line

Purchase — funds provided by the Women's Committee of the Smithsonian Associates

Date

1662-1722

Period

Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign

Accession Number

F1986.4a-b

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

Vessel

Medium

Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze

Dimensions

H x Diam: 46.1 × 20.8 cm (18 1/8 × 8 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

landscape

crane

Jingdezhen ware

deer

Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)

cloud

cobalt pigment

China

porcelain

Chinese Art

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