Bottle and Stand
date: label: Date
content: 6th century
label: Period
content: Northern Qi or Northern Zhou dynasty
notes: label: Description
content: Stand with flaring base and top.
label: Description
content: Body: hard buff earthenware.
label: Description
content: Glaze: green lead glaze, finely crackled, largely iridescent.
label: Description
content: Decoration: pairs of incised lines surround body; three holes in lower section.
label: Label
content: This long-necked jar and matching stand belong to a group of funerary vessels of northern provenance. Unlike Han dynasty lead-glazed burial pieces, it served a Buddhist function. The appliques of monster masks, rosettes and lozenges with beaded borders reflect Central Asian, specifically Khotanese, influence. The tall, splayed base support, which lends the jar a decidedly more attenuated shape, has parallels in ceramics recently unearthed in the People's Republic of China.
label: Provenance
content: To 1930
label: Provenance
content: C. T. Loo & Company, New York to 1930 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1930
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from C. T. Loo & Company, New York in 1930 [2]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note. See also Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires (May 9, 1993 to January 28, 2007)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Ceramics (March 15, 1982 to July 10, 1986)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Metalwork, Pottery, and Painting (March 23, 1944 to May 2, 1946)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Scrolls (July 19, 1943 to April 30, 1946)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese and Korean Ceramics (March 22, 1943 to November 13, 1944)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Panels and Han Pottery (February 25, 1925 to July 19, 1943)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: C. T. Loo & Company (1914-1948)
place: label: Origin
content: China
topic: label: Topic
content: iridescence
label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Northern Qi dynasty (550 - 577)
label: Topic
content: Northern Zhou dynasty (557 - 581)
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: earthenware
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1930.34
objectType: label: Type
content: Furniture and Furnishing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Earthenware with copper-green lead-silicate glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 36 x 27.2 cm (14 3/16 x 10 11/16 in)