Photographs
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Plumer, James Marshall
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content: James Marshall Plumer Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1935, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A.14, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Organized into two sub-series:
Sub-series 2.1: Prints
Sub-series 2.2: Negatives
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographs (which include silver gelatin photonegatives and photoprints) document Chinese ceramics, primarily Yue ware, and kiln sites in Fukien (Fujian) and Chekiang (Zhejiang) provinces, dating from ninth and tenth centuries, which were discovered by Plumer. Many of the images depict ceramics in private collections and in the laboratory settings. Most of the items are "wasters", imperfect ceramic objects that were broken at the kiln site at the time of manufacture. They include bowls, candlesticks, jars, tea cups, and vases. Other photographs show archaeological field workers, including Plumer and local staff, field work activities, kilns, and the landscape surrounding the kilns.

Photographers and studios represented include the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Charles B. Hoyt, Herbert Ingram, C.T. Loo, the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), and James Marshall Plumer. Some photographs from this collection have been previously published or used in exhibitions.