- Provenance
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1929
Yamanaka and Company, Boston 1929 [1]From 1929
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Yamanaka and Company, Boston in 1929 [2]Notes:
[1] See Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.
[2] See note 1.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Yamanaka and Co. 1917-1965
- Description
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Flower-pot, with twelve-lobed sides and festooned rim. Strong basal ring, moulded to correspond with the rim. Five perforations in the base, four of which are stopped with plaster. Numeral jiu (9) and inscription incised on the bottom.
Clay: porcellanous, sonant.
Glaze: deep strawberry red on the outside mingled with blue; blue inside; ribs and edges show as olive brown.
- Inscription(s)
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Numeral jiu (9) and inscription incised on the bottom.
- Published References
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- Else S. Duncan. The Collector's First Handbook on Antique Chinese Ceramics. Chevy Chase. pl. 3.
- Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections. 12 vols., Tokyo. vol. 10, pl. 54.
- Grace Dunham Guest, Archibald Gibson Wenley. Annotated Outlines of the History of Chinese Arts. Washington, 1949. p. 9.
- Grace Dunham Guest. Chinese Porcelain at the Freer Gallery of Art. vol. 20, no. 1 Columbus, Ohio, January 1941. p. 24, fig. 5.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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