- Provenance
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To 1985
Trocadéro, Kenny & Higgins Asian Art, Inc., Washington, DC, to 1985From 1985
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Trocadéro, Kenny & Higgins Asian Art, Inc. in 1985 [1]Notes:
[1] Transferred from the Study Collection (FSC-P-3451) to the permanent collection on November 14, 1986.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Trocadéro, Kenny & Higgins Asian Art, Inc.
- Description
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Jar with fitted cover, full body narrowing toward flaring base, short neck; domed cover with knob and flattened overhanging rim. Chip and glaze flaws in cover rim; foot rim slightly wedge-shaped, unglazed and inset from glaze beading at base. Double ring mark on base.
Clay: white porcelain.
Glaze: transparent, flawed.
Decoration: painted in underglaze blue, line and wash. Cover: two conventionalized flower heads with leafy scrolls, knob is blue, rim has four half-prunus motifs on blue "ice" ground. At lip, trefoil motif. Comb band around base of neck. Body with eight flower heads same as on cover and similar conventionalized foliate scroll.Wood stand, not previously recorded.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
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