- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Shallow bowl with wide, flaring rim bound with copper; small foot.
Clay: fine off-white stoneware.
Glaze: transparent, slightly bubbly, some "tear-drops" on outside.
Decoration: two ducks swimming among water plants incised in the paste under the glaze.
- Published References
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- Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections. 12 vols., Tokyo. vol. 10, pl. 58.
- Mrs. Hin-cheung Lovell. Sung and Yuan Monochrome Lacquers in the Freer Gallery. vol. 9 Washington and Ann Arbor. pl. 11.
- Dr. John Alexander Pope, Thomas Lawton, Harold P. Stern. The Freer Gallery of Art. 2 vols., Washington and Tokyo, 1971-1972. cat. 92, vol. 1: p. 174.
- Masterpieces of Chinese and Japanese Art: Freer Gallery of Art handbook. Washington, 1976. p. 68.
- James Cahill. The Art of Southern Sung China. New York. p. 82, fig. 44.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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