Jar with four loop handles

Jar (“kuan”): ovoidal; four loop handles; low solid foot; rim broken.
Clay: hard, dense, buff; red-orange on surface.
Glaze: Underfired green glaze, stopping slightly below midpoint except for several drips in one place.

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Historical period(s)
Sui dynasty, 581-618
Medium
Stoneware with white slip under underfired celadon glaze
Dimensions
H x Diam: 22 Ɨ 18.8 cm (8 11/16 Ɨ 7 3/8 in)
Geography
China
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Accession Number
F1910.18
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Ceramic, Vessel
Type

Jar (kuan)

Keywords
China, stoneware, Sui dynasty (581 - 618)
Provenance

To 1910
Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1910 [1]

From 1910 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1910 [2]

From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2011, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

[2] See note 1.

[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
Yamanaka and Co. (C.L. Freer source) 1917-1965

Description

Jar ("kuan"): ovoidal; four loop handles; low solid foot; rim broken.
Clay: hard, dense, buff; red-orange on surface.
Glaze: Underfired green glaze, stopping slightly below midpoint except for several drips in one place.

Published References
  • Mrs. Hin-cheung Lovell. Some Northern Chinese Wares of the Sixth and Seventh Centuries. vol. 21, no. 4, Winter 1975. pp. 328-343, fig. 12.
Collection Area(s)
Chinese Art
Web Resources
Google Cultural Institute
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