Object Details
- Description
- Bottle, cylindrical; low foot. Brass-mounted jade stopper. Wood stand.
- Clay: hard, porcellanous.
- Glaze: flambe, blue green and rose-purple over gray.
- Provenance
- To 1909
- Frédéric Albert Bourée, Paris, to 1909 [1]
- From 1909 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Frédéric Albert Bourée in 1909 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1994, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Frédéric Albert Bourée was the French Minister to Peking during the preceding the Sino-French War.
- [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
- Minister Frederic Albert Bouree (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- 19th century
- Period
- Qing dynasty
- Accession Number
- F1909.324a-c
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with flambe glaze; brass-mounted jade stopper, wooden stand
- Dimensions
- H x W: 10.9 x 6.6 cm (4 5/16 x 2 5/8 in)
- Style
- Guangdong ware
- Origin
- Guangdong province, China
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- ceramic
- Guangdong ware
- Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)
- China
- stoneware
- Chinese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1909.324a-c
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye388928ff0-bb73-4112-b66f-a652d7504702
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