Vessel of type ting, with lid
date: label: Date
content: 770-221 BCE
label: Period
content: Eastern Zhou dynasty
notes: label: Description
content: Pottery vessel of type ting,with a groove round the body, two angular handles, three splayed legs. The lid has three concentric grooves and three equally spaced lugs.
label: Description
content: Paste: very soft greyish pottery.
label: Description
content: Glaze: none.
label: Description
content: Decoration: The inner facings of the handles bear faintly discernible moulded decoration of meandering band of the Li-yu type. The tops of the legs bear moulded monster masks.
label: Provenance
content: From 1923
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, purchased by Carl Whiting Bishop at I-Chou, Hopei province, China in November 1923 [1]
label: Provenance
content: Note:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
place: label: Origin
content: Hebei province, China
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: earthenware
label: Topic
content: unglazed
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
label: Topic
content: Carl Whiting Bishop 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: Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1923.17a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Unglazed earthenware
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 19.8 x 19 cm (7 13/16 x 7 1/2 in)