- Provenance
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To 1961
J. T. Tai & Co., New York, New York. [1]From 1961
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from J. T. Tai & Co., New York, New York. [2]Notes:
[1] See object file, Collections Management Office.
[2] See note 1.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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J.T. Tai & Co. established in 1950
- Description
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Clay: fine white porcelain.
Glaze: transparent, thick, some orange peel effect.
Decoration: un underglaze blue, a central landscape with rock, coxcomb, etc., and eight flower and fruit sprays in cavetto. Outside, the three friends. The identification of the plants in the cavetto is (probably): chrysanthemum, peach, rose, loquat, day lily, persimmon, blackberry lily, camellia.
- Label
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The viewer of this exceptionally large dish seems to stand within a spacious garden. An ornamental rock serves as the focal point, and plants bloom lushly on the near and far sides of a small pond or stream. The garden represents all seasons: spring primrose and narcissus join autumn cockscomb. Eight sprays of flowers and fruit circle the rim, while pine, flowering plum, and bamboo--the Three Friends of Winter--ring the outside of the dish. The landscape's similarity to those in paintings made for the court indicates that court painters sometimes provided designs for Jingdezhen decorators.
- Published References
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- Dr. John Alexander Pope. The History of Ming Porcelain: A Lecture on the Occasion of the 1st Presentation of the Hills Gold Medal, June 9th, 1971. Hills Gold Medal Lecture London. pl. 10b.
- Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections. 12 vols., Tokyo. vol. 10, pl. 95.
- Dr. John Alexander Pope, Thomas Lawton, Harold P. Stern. The Freer Gallery of Art. 2 vols., Washington and Tokyo, 1971-1972. cat. 175, vol. 1: p. 175.
- Thomas Dexel. Vollkommenheit aus dem Feuer : chinesisches Porzellan aus berühmten Sammlungen. vol. 106, no. 11 Braunschweig, Germany, November 1965. pp. 39-49, fig. 4.
- Jan Stuart. Guiding Luminaries Charles Lang Freer and John A. Pope: the Freer Gallery of Art's Chinese Ceramic Collection. vol. 85 London. p. 124, fig. 17.
- Thomas Lawton, Thomas W. Lentz. Beyond the Legacy: Anniversary Acquisitions for the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. vol. 1 Washington, 1998. p. 254, fig. 1.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
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