Cylindrical jar

Pottery with “three-color” glaze.
Cylindrical jar with horizontally ribbed sides, three short curved feet.
Clay: buff white, very soft.
Glaze: dark blue outside with fine crackle and some areas of iridescence and disintegration, earth adhesions; mustard yellow inside.
Decoration: horizontal fluting of the body.

Historical period(s)
Tang dynasty, 700-750
Medium
Earthenware with cobalt-blue and iron-yellow lead-silicate glazes
Dimensions
H x W: 14.7 x 14.7 cm (5 13/16 x 5 13/16 in)
Geography
China
Credit Line
Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Accession Number
F1929.6
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Ceramic, Vessel
Type

Jar

Keywords
China, earthenware, Tang dynasty (618 - 907)
Provenance

1929
Yamanaka and Company, New York 1929 [1]

From 1929
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Yamanaka and Company, New York in 1929 [2]

Notes:

[1] Object file, undated folder sheet. Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

[2] See note 1.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Yamanaka and Co. 1917-1965

Description

Pottery with "three-color" glaze.
Cylindrical jar with horizontally ribbed sides, three short curved feet.
Clay: buff white, very soft.
Glaze: dark blue outside with fine crackle and some areas of iridescence and disintegration, earth adhesions; mustard yellow inside.
Decoration: horizontal fluting of the body.

Published References
  • Thomas Dexel. Fruhe Keramik in China: Die Entwicklung der Hauptformen vom Neolithikum bis in die T'ang-Zeit. Braunschweig, Germany. pl. 60d.
  • Warren E. Cox. The Book of Pottery and Porcelain. 2 vols., New York. vol. 1: p. 116, fig. 256.
  • Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections. 12 vols., Tokyo. vol. 10, pl. 11.
Collection Area(s)
Chinese Art
Web Resources
Google Cultural Institute
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