- Provenance
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To 1993
The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, NY, to 1993From 1993
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from The Chinese Porcelain Company in 1993
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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The Chinese Porcelain Company Established 1984
- Description
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A blue and white two-handled vase and cover of bulbous form with wide, straight neck and low-domed cover; the short splayed foot decorated with band of herringbone beneath stylized scrolls; the body with two opposite barbed quatrefoil panels; each panel enclosing two overlapping trapezoid shape fans with herringbone borders and interior scenes; the fans surrounded by various Buddhist symbols; the exterior of the quatrefoil panels each with lotus plant emerging from the foot; the low domed cover with short splayed lip and decorated with a large central quatrefoil panel with each quarter enclosing a different Buddhist emblem; the blue bud-form finial forming the center of the quatrefoil flower; the sinuous S-form handles each with lower molded scroll painted with meandering vine to the molded blue mask on the upper curve of the handle; the sharply cut footrim unglazed; the base glazed white.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- SI Usage Statement
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