- Provenance
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To 1946
T.H. Ching, New York. [1]From 1946
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from T.H. Ching, New York. [2]Notes:
[1] Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920, Collections Management Office.
[2] See note 1.
- Previous Owner(s)
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T. H. Ching
- Label
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Eighteenth-century revivals of Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279) Guan ware can be quite convincing. Many Southern Song originals feature crackled glaze, but some of the finest have uncrazed, matte glaze, which provided the inspiration for this copy. The dark purple foot of this vase resembles genuine Guanware, but the foot rim was dressed with iron to produce the dark color; the clay body is actually white porcelain clay.
- Published References
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- Oriental Ceramics (Toyo Toji Taikan): The World's Great Collections. 12 vols., Tokyo. pl. 126.
- Wang Qingzheng. Yongzheng Imitations of Guan, Ge, Ru, Ru and Jun Wares. vol. 22, no. 2 Hong Kong, February 1991. pp. 54-59.
- Suzanne Valenstein. Handbook of Chinese Ceramics., 1st ed. Boston and New York. p. 199, pl. 140.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- Rights Statement
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Copyright with museum
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