Cup with handles

Cup in the form of an oval bowl with two flange-like handles at rim; very narrow foot. Some translucence, pale green and brown; profuse opaque cream; decomposition, especially in interior. Decoration in low relief and incised: exterior had broad band of interlocked spirals between narrow geometric borders, birds on base; interior has simple spiral designs and border. Handles pierced and incised in spiral forms. Some earth incrustation.

Historical period(s)
Warring States period, Eastern Zhou dynasty, 475-221 BCE
Medium
Jade (nephrite)
Dimensions
H x W x D: 4.5 x 13.2 x 10.6 cm (1 3/4 x 5 3/16 x 4 3/16 in)
Geography
China, Probably Jincun, Henan province
Credit Line
Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Accession Number
F1931.19
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Jade, Vessel
Type

Cup

Keywords
China, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE), Warring States period (475 - 221 BCE), wine
Provenance

To 1931
C. T. Loo & Company, New York to 1931 [1]

From 1931
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from C. T. Loo & Company, New York in 1931 [2]

Notes:

[1] Object file, undated folder sheet note.

[2] See note 1. Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

C.T. Loo & Company 1914-1948

Description

Cup in the form of an oval bowl with two flange-like handles at rim; very narrow foot. Some translucence, pale green and brown; profuse opaque cream; decomposition, especially in interior. Decoration in low relief and incised: exterior had broad band of interlocked spirals between narrow geometric borders, birds on base; interior has simple spiral designs and border. Handles pierced and incised in spiral forms. Some earth incrustation.

Published References
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  • Sueji Umehara. Shina kokogaku ronko [Studies in Chinese Archaeology]. Showa 13 Tokyo, 1938-1940. pl. 85, fig. 5.
  • Sueji Umehara. Shina kogyoku zuroku [Selected Specimens of Chinese Archaic Jade]. Kyoto, 1955. pl. 59.
  • Sueji Umehara. Rakuyo kinson kobo shuei [Objects from the Ancient Tombs at Chin Ts'un, Lo-yang]. Kyoto. pl. 78.
  • Osvald Siren. Kinas Konst Under Tre Artusenden. 2 vols., Stockholm, 1942-1943. vol. 2: pl. 57 b.
  • Sekai bijutsu zenshu [A Complete Collection of World Art]. 40 vols., Tokyo, F1951-1953. cat. 89-90, vol. 2.
  • Alfred Salmony. Carved Jade of Ancient China. Berkeley, 1938. pl. 55, no. 2.
  • S. Howard Hansford. Chinese Carved Jades. The Arts of the East London. pl. 39.
  • Hai wai i chen [Chinese Art in Overseas Collections]. Taipei, 1985. .
  • Chugoku no bijutsu [The Arts of China]. 6 vols., Kyoto. vol. 6: p. 202, pl. 52.
  • Chugoku bijutsu [Chinese Art in Western Collections]. 5 vols., Tokyo, 1972-1973. vol. 4: fig. 105.
  • Michael Sullivan. The Arts of China., 3rd ed. Berkeley. p. 77.
  • Na Chih-liang. "玉器通史." Yu ch'i t'ung shih [A General Study of Chinese Jade]. Hong Kong, 1965. p. 86, fig. 113.
  • S. Howard Hansford. Chinese Jade Carving. London. pp. 113-114, pl. 19a.
  • Richard Gump. Jade: Stone of Heaven., 1st ed. Garden City, 1962. p. 140.
  • Thomas Lawton. Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C. Washington, 1982-1983. cat. 102, p. 155.
Collection Area(s)
Chinese Art
Web Resources
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