Fragment of the rim and fluted cavetto of a celadon dish

Shape: Fragment of the rim and cavetto of a relatively large celadon dish. Mouth of the dish was “scooped” upward, meaning that the profile of the dish flattens at the top of the cavetto for about 1.3 cm before the rim sweeps sharply up another 0.6 cm. The shard wall is approximately 0.8 cm thick.

Clay: Very fine, very light gray stoneware clay with many extremely fine black inclusions and a few small air pockets.

Glaze: Thick, unctuous, bubbly, apple-green celadon which completely covers the wall and mouthrim of the dish, inside and out. The glaze is uncrackled. The outside of the dish wall is grossly disfigured from a firing accident where the dish came into contact with kiln debris or another ceramic vessel.

Decoration: Impressed fluting in the cavetto of the dish extends from the mirror to the bottom edge of the scooped mouth.

Marks: None.

Historical period(s)
Yuan dynasty, 14th century
Medium
Stoneware with celadon glaze
Style
Longquan ware
Dimensions
H x W x D: 1 x 1.9 x 3.2 cm (3/8 x 3/4 x 1 1/4 in)
Geography
China, Zhejiang province, Longquan
Credit Line
Gift of John A. Pope
Collection
Freer Study Collection
Accession Number
FSC-P-455
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Ceramic, Vessel
Type

Dish (fragment)

Keywords
China, green glaze, Longquan ware, stoneware, Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368)
Provenance

To 1957
John A. Pope (1906-1982), Washington DC, collected between August 1956 and April 1957 in Angkor, Cambodia. [1]

From 1957
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of John A. Pope, Washington DC [2]

Notes:

[1] See Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record. See also “Ceramics in Mainland and Southeast Asia: Collections in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery”, copy in object file, Collections Management Office.

[2] See note 1. See also object file, Collections Management Office.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Dr. John Alexander Pope 1906-1982

Description

Shape: Fragment of the rim and cavetto of a relatively large celadon dish. Mouth of the dish was "scooped" upward, meaning that the profile of the dish flattens at the top of the cavetto for about 1.3 cm before the rim sweeps sharply up another 0.6 cm. The shard wall is approximately 0.8 cm thick.

Clay: Very fine, very light gray stoneware clay with many extremely fine black inclusions and a few small air pockets.

Glaze: Thick, unctuous, bubbly, apple-green celadon which completely covers the wall and mouthrim of the dish, inside and out. The glaze is uncrackled. The outside of the dish wall is grossly disfigured from a firing accident where the dish came into contact with kiln debris or another ceramic vessel.

Decoration: Impressed fluting in the cavetto of the dish extends from the mirror to the bottom edge of the scooped mouth.

Marks: None.

Collection Area(s)
Chinese Art
Web Resources
Google Cultural Institute
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