Tomb vessel with lid (<em>hill jar</em>)
date: label: Date
content: early 1st-early 3rd century
label: Period
content: Eastern Han dynasty
notes: label: Description
content: Chinese
label: Description
content: Han
label: Description
content: Glazed pottery
label: Description
content: " Hill-jar"; cylindrical vessel with cover; three bear-shaped feet; spur marks.
label: Description
content: Clay: reddish, sandy texture; fired medium.
label: Description
content: Glaze: lead silicate; deep green with areas of silvery iridescence, earth incrustations.
label: Description
content: Decoration: horizontal panels moulded in relief with animals a nd horsemen; two simulated mask and ring handles; cover represents mountains with animals in relief.
label: Provenance
content: Excavated in Shensi [1]
label: Provenance
content: To 1916
label: Provenance
content: You Xiaoxi, Shanghai, to 1916 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1916 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from You Xiaoxi, in New York in 1916 [3]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] According to Curatorial Remark 3, C.L. Freer, undated note, in the object record: "This object was excavated in Shensi."
label: Provenance
content: [2] See Original Pottery List, L. 2491, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See note 2.
label: Provenance
content: [4] 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: Chinese Ceramics (March 15, 1982 to July 10, 1986)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Art (March 9, 1981 to March 12, 1982)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Ceramics (May 9, 1980 to March 6, 1981)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to September 4, 1980)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics, 1955 (September 19, 1955 to November 10, 1955)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, West Corridor, 1947 (January 8, 1947 to February 10, 1947)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1946 (May 6, 1946 to November 17, 1955)
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: You Xiaoxi 游篠溪 (late 19th-early 20th century) (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: Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)
label: Topic
content: Eastern Han dynasty (25 - 220)
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: 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: F1916.488a-b
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: 22.2 cm (8 3/4 in)