Vase

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Description

Vase, baluster type, sometimes called "yen-yen" vase, swelling body, long neck with trumpet mouth, flared slightly at base which rolls neatly to a wedge-shaped, unglazed foot-rim.

Clay: fine white Jingdezhen porcelain.

Glaze: transparent, glossy, some pin-holes especially on glazed base.

Decoration: painted in vivid underglaze cobalt blue, line and wash. Neck and body have similar design of pine needles, rocks and plants painted in blue on white ground and a prunus tree reserved in white and in slight relief against irregular areas of blue wash with feathery edges. Details are drawn in blue. Four blue lines separate neck and body areas; double lines under lip and at base. This design is also seen with magnolia subject.

Although there is no mark, it can be assigned to the Kangxi period.

Condition: excellent.

Wood stand, not previously recorded.

Provenance

The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Viriginia [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 Freer Study Collection (FSC-P-3449) 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)

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

Previous custodian or owner

The Chrysler Museum of Art

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

F1986.19a-b

Restrictions & Rights

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Type

Vessel

Medium

Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze

Dimensions

H x Diam: 46 × 22.4 cm (18 1/8 × 8 13/16 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

tree

pine tree

Jingdezhen ware

Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)

plum blossom

cobalt pigment

China

porcelain

Chinese Art

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