A blue glass dish filled with fruit
date: label: Date
content: likely 18th century
label: Period
content: Qing dynasty
notes: label: Description
content: A blue-glass dish filled with fruit, including pomegranate, pomello, Asian pear, water caltrop, and grapes.
label: Description
content: With six spurious seals, purportedly belonging to Emperor Song Huizong and to Ming collector, Xiang Yuanpian.
label: Description
content: On silk in an album.
label: Marks
content: (D.K. Liu, 1914) Artist unknown. Small seal in right upper corner reads: "Shen-ping." Seal in right lower corner reads: "Hsuan-ho." They are both seals of the Emperor Hui-tsung of Sung Dynasty. Seal in left upper reads: "Hsiang Yuan-pien." Seal in left lower corner reads: "Preserved by Mu-lin." These two belong to the great Ming collector and painter, Hsiang Yuan-pien. Gourd-shaped seal at top reads: "Imperial handwriting." It has no meaning and does not look like a good seal. Large square seal near right upper corner is the prince's seal which appears on every painting in this album. It reads: "Preserved with care in the Ch'en-fu." Ch'en-fu is the name of the residence of a prince, perhaps of the Manchu dynasty.
label: Marks
content: (D.K. Liu, 1914) Artist unknown. Small seal in right upper corner reads: "Shen-ping." Seal in right lower corner reads: "Hsuan-ho." They are both seals of the Emperor Hui-tsung of Sung Dynasty. Seal in left upper reads: "Hsiang Yuan-pien." Seal in left lower corner reads: "Preserved by Mu-lin." These two belong to the great Ming collector and painter, Hsiang Yuan-pien. Gourd-shaped seal at top reads: "Imperial handwriting." It has no meaning and does not look like a good seal. Large square seal near right upper corner is the prince's seal which appears on every painting in this album. It reads: "Preserved with care in the Ch'en-fu." Ch'en-fu is the name of the residence of a prince, perhaps of the Manchu dynasty.
label: Provenance
content: To 1909
label: Provenance
content: Loon Gu Sai, Beijing, to 1909 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1909 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Loon Gu Sai, Beijing in 1909 [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 Album List, pg. 30, S.I. 8, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. According to Ingrid Larsen, "'Don’t Send Ming or Later Pictures': Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum," Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011), Loon Gu Sai was possibly Lunguzhai, a store in the antiques district of Liulichang.
label: Provenance
content: This object exhibits seals, colophons, or inscriptions that could provide additional information regarding the object’s history; see Curatorial Remarks in the object record for further details.
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: Previous custodian or owner
content: Loon Gu Sai (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: China
topic: label: Topic
content: glassware
label: Topic
content: still life
label: Topic
content: Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)
label: Topic
content: fruit
label: Topic
content: grape
label: Topic
content: pomegranate
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
label: Topic
content: pear
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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: F1909.245e
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Ink and color on silk
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 27.6 x 25.9 cm (10 7/8 x 10 3/16 in)