Object Details
- Description
- Figure seated on a recumbent elephant; rectangular base with cut corners.
- Body: hard, gray stoneware.
- Glaze: opaque bluish gray with brown showing through where thin; entire base glazed.
- Provenance
- To 1909
- Mah Zuh Kee, Shanghai, to 1909 [1]
- From 1909 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Mah Zuh Kee in 1909 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2048, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, Accession File, Collections Management office.
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Mah Zuh Kee (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- 17th-19th century
- Period
- Qing dynasty
- Accession Number
- F1909.312
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- Stoneware with Jun-style glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 13.6 x 12.7 cm (5 3/8 x 5 in)
- Style
- Shiwan (Shekwan) ware
- Origin
- Shiwan (Shekwan) kilns, Foshan, Guangdong province, China
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- ceramic
- Buddhism
- Guangdong ware
- elephant
- Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)
- Samantabhadra
- China
- stoneware
- Chinese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1909.312
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye31093337f-3c0c-42ba-bcc6-221007f4cf25
