Tomb jar
date: label: Date
content: early 1st-early 3rd century
label: Period
content: Eastern Han dynasty
notes: label: Description
content: Vase: tall, on high base; flattened-ovoidal body with slightly expanding cylindrical neck. Glazed pottery.
label: Description
content: Clay: soft, dense, reddish.
label: Description
content: Glaze: dark green mottled over with brown; large areas of silvery iridescent disintegration; crackled.
label: Description
content: Decoration: corrugated encircling lines and two rudimentary head-and-ring handles, molded in relief. Cf. F1917.190.
label: Provenance
content: To 1917
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1917 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1917 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1917 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Pottery List, L. 2514, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
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 Metalwork, Pottery, and Painting (March 23, 1944 to May 2, 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: Exhibition History
content: Japanese and Korean Pottery, and Korean Bronze (May 2, 1923 to March 22, 1943)
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: China
topic: label: Topic
content: iridescence
label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Eastern Han dynasty (25 - 220)
label: Topic
content: funerary
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: earthenware
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: F1917.191
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Earthenware with copper-green lead-silicate glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 47.6 x 33.9 cm (18 3/4 x 13 3/8 in)