Jar
date: label: Date
content: 1st century BCE
label: Period
content: Western Han dynasty
notes: label: Description
content: Jar (hu): ovoidal, with trumpet-shaped mouth; two open handles; recessed foot. Stoneware with green glaze.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard, gray. Reddish-brown on surface.
label: Description
content: Glaze: lustrous olive on shoulder and inside neck.
label: Description
content: Decorations: corrugated encircling lines, and wave designs incised in paste. "X" mark at base of neck. Cf. F1909.299.
label: Provenance
content: To 1910
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, to 1910 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1910 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1910 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2008, Freer Galley of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The majority of Charles Lang Freer’s purchases from Yamanaka & Company were made at its New York branch. Yamanaka & Company maintained branch offices, at various times, in Boston, Chicago, London, Peking, Shanghai, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto. During the summer, the company also maintained seasonal locations in Newport, Bar Harbor, and Atlantic City.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [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.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics, 1955 (September 19, 1955 to November 10, 1955)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1946 (May 6, 1946 to November 17, 1955)
label: Exhibition History
content: Special Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1946 (August 7, 1946 to January 7, 1947)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Zhejiang province, China
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Western Han dynasty (206 BCE - 9 CE)
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: stoneware
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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content: Google Arts & Culture
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1910.15
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with wood-ash glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 22.9 x 19.1 cm (9 x 7 1/2 in)