<![CDATA[The Peacock Room]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/browse/page/12?output=rss2 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:43:53 +0000 libwebmaster@wayne.edu (The Peacock Room) Zend_Feed http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Sake bottle]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3116

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Title

Sake bottle

Description

Bottle (tokkuri)
This long-necked sake bottle from the Edo period was purchased by Freer as part of a larger collection, the Waggaman Collection of 1905. Its previous owner, Thomas A. Waggaman, was among the founders of Catholic University in Washington, DC. On February 2, 1905, a <i>New York Times</i> article referred to sale of the Waggaman Collection and mentioned Freer as one of the purchasers, along with the author, O. Henry. This pear-shaped vessel is sometimes referred to as a "crane's neck bottle" because of its unique opening. Its coloration is dark brown, and the glaze of its clay body is flecked with an ochre yellow finish-almost as if it were sprinkled with pure gold.

Date

1650-1710

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
American Art Association

Format

Stoneware with iron glaze; silver rim
Karatsu ware
HxW: 23.5 x 13.4 cm

Identifier

F1905.48
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Coverage

2
35
North
Edo period
Taku
Japan
United States
New York
New York

Freer

Label Text

This long-necked sake bottle from the Edo period was purchased by Freer as part of a larger collection, the Waggaman Collection of 1905. Its previous owner, Thomas A. Waggaman, was among the founders of Catholic University in Washington, DC. On February 2, 1905, a New York Times article referred to sale of the Waggaman Collection and mentioned Freer as one of the purchasers, along with the author, O. Henry. This pear-shaped vessel is sometimes referred to as a "crane's neck bottle" because of its unique opening. Its coloration is dark brown, and the glaze of its clay body is flecked with an ochre yellow finish-almost as if it were sprinkled with pure gold.

Object Name

Bottle (tokkuri)

Ware

Karatsu ware

Dated

1650-1710

Period

Edo period

Medium

Stoneware with iron glaze; silver rim

Dimensions

HxW: 23.5 x 13.4 cm

City

Taku

Country

Japan

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

35

Wall

North

Title

Sake bottle

Object Number

F1905.48

Freer Source

American Art Association

Freer Source City

New York

Freer Source State

New York

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

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]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:44 +0000 <![CDATA[Vase with crescent-moon and sun-shaped lugs]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3115

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Title

Vase with crescent-moon and sun-shaped lugs

Description

Vase
The sun and moon stand in relief as handles on this Edo-period Japanese stoneware vase. Freer purchased the vase from Tozo Takayanagi in 1902 and noted that the vessel was "very fine." He also noted his disagreement with Matsuki Bunkyo, one of his frequent art dealers and a sometime- adviser on purchases of Asian art and ceramics. "B. Matsuki says Tamba. I say Bizen," Freer wrote. Later scholars have agreed that it is not a Tamba piece, but have fallen short of verifying Freer's account. Its delicate proportions and workmanship, including its iron and ash glazes, suggest the Edo or Meiji period, likely from a kiln in the Fukuoka Prefecture of Japan, and associated with the historical region of the Buzen or Chikuzen Province. In the Peacock Room in Detroit, the vase stood on a shelf to the right of the room's focal point, <i>La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine.</i>

Date

1800-1880

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Tozo Takayanagi

Format

Stoneware with iron and ash glazes
Possibly Agano or Takatori ware
HxW: 20.2 x 12.2 cm

Identifier

F1902.96
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Coverage

2
34
North
Edo period or Meiji era
Japan
United States
New York
New York

Freer

Label Text

The sun and moon stand in relief as handles on this Edo-period Japanese stoneware vase. Freer purchased the vase from Tozo Takayanagi in 1902 and noted that the vessel was "very fine." He also noted his disagreement with Matsuki Bunkyo, one of his frequent art dealers and a sometime- adviser on purchases of Asian art and ceramics. "B. Matsuki says Tamba. I say Bizen," Freer wrote. Later scholars have agreed that it is not a Tamba piece, but have fallen short of verifying Freer's account. Its delicate proportions and workmanship, including its iron and ash glazes, suggest the Edo or Meiji period, likely from a kiln in the Fukuoka Prefecture of Japan, and associated with the historical region of the Buzen or Chikuzen Province. In the Peacock Room in Detroit, the vase stood on a shelf to the right of the room's focal point, La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine.

Object Name

Vase

Ware

Possibly Agano or Takatori ware

Dated

1800-1880

Period

Edo period or Meiji era

Medium

Stoneware with iron and ash glazes

Dimensions

HxW: 20.2 x 12.2 cm

Country

Japan

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

34

Wall

North

Title

Vase with crescent-moon and sun-shaped lugs

Object Number

F1902.96

Freer Source

Tozo Takayanagi

Freer Source City

New York

Freer Source State

New York

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

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]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:44 +0000 <![CDATA[Incense container with Chinese lion-dog on lid]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3114

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Title

Incense container with Chinese lion-dog on lid

Description

Incense box (kogo)
Freer purchased this Edo period incense container from the sale of the Samuel Colman collection just after the turn of the twentieth century. Colman (1832-1920) was an early collector of "Oriental art" in America: in 1880, a number of his pieces, including Chinese porcelain and a Japanese suit of armor, were displayed at the Ortgies Gallery in New York City. The open-mouthed lion may have been derived from a similar motif on a style of Ming dynasty Chinese bronze incense burner (with the lion's mouth serving as smoke vent). In the Peacock Room, this piece was on the far right end of the mantel; an earthenware cat (F1897.33) was placed on the far left. Between these two animal figures Freer arrayed a number of simple tea bowls in varying shade of brown.

Date

19th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
American Art Association

Format

Raku-type earthenware with red slip under clear lead glaze; partial gilding
Raku ware, unknown workshop
HxWxD: 5.2 x 5.2 x 4.3 cm

Identifier

F1902.63a-b
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Coverage

2
33.1
North
Edo period
Japan
United States
New York
New York

Freer

Label Text

Freer purchased this Edo period incense container from the sale of the Samuel Colman collection just after the turn of the twentieth century. Colman (1832-1920) was an early collector of "Oriental art" in America: in 1880, a number of his pieces, including Chinese porcelain and a Japanese suit of armor, were displayed at the Ortgies Gallery in New York City. The open-mouthed lion may have been derived from a similar motif on a style of Ming dynasty Chinese bronze incense burner (with the lion's mouth serving as smoke vent). In the Peacock Room, this piece was on the far right end of the mantel; an earthenware cat (F1897.33) was placed on the far left. Between these two animal figures Freer arrayed a number of simple tea bowls in varying shade of brown.

Object Name

Incense box (kogo)

Ware

Raku ware, unknown workshop

Dated

19th century

Period

Edo period

Medium

Raku-type earthenware with red slip under clear lead glaze; partial gilding

Dimensions

HxWxD: 5.2 x 5.2 x 4.3 cm

Country

Japan

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

33.1

Wall

North

Title

Incense container with Chinese lion-dog on lid

Object Number

F1902.63a-b

Freer Source

American Art Association

Freer Source City

New York

Freer Source State

New York

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

http://141.217.97.109/plugins/Dropbox/files/peacock-jpg/JPEG/F1902.63a-b.jpg

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]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:44 +0000 <![CDATA[Tea bowl]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3113

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Title

Tea bowl

Description

Tea bowl (hirajawan)
This tea bowl, purchased in 1904 from Yamanaka and Company in New York, is made from fine-grained, buff clay with a pale greenish glaze. Its patina of brown stain on its bottom and lower sides&#151;the result of its use in the tea ceremony&#151;gives it a chromatic complexity that would have appealed to Freer, who displayed it with similar bowls on the mantel of the Peacock Room.

Date

late 15th-early 16th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Yamanaka and Co.

Format

Stoneware with ash glaze
Seto ware
HxWxD: 5.8 x 15.5 x 15.5 cm

Identifier

F1904.327
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Coverage

2
33
North
Muromachi period
Japan
United States
New York
New York

Freer

Label Text

This tea bowl, purchased in 1904 from Yamanaka and Company in New York, is made from fine-grained, buff clay with a pale greenish glaze. Its patina of brown stain on its bottom and lower sides—the result of its use in the tea ceremony—gives it a chromatic complexity that would have appealed to Freer, who displayed it with similar bowls on the mantel of the Peacock Room.

Object Name

Tea bowl (hirajawan)

Ware

Seto ware

Dated

late 15th-early 16th century

Period

Muromachi period

Medium

Stoneware with ash glaze

Dimensions

HxWxD: 5.8 x 15.5 x 15.5 cm

Country

Japan

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

33

Wall

North

Title

Tea bowl

Object Number

F1904.327

Freer Source

Yamanaka and Co.

Freer Source City

New York

Freer Source State

New York

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

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]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:44 +0000 <![CDATA[Bowl]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3112

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Title

Bowl

Description

Bowl
Like many of the other tea bowls arranged on the mantel of the Peacock Room in 1908, this example, dating to the sixteenth century, was produced in Korea for a Japanese market. Freer found it, along with a number of similar examples, at the Fifth Avenue branch of Yamanaka and Company. Although many Western collectors of Asian ceramics favored highly decorated porcelains, Freer preferred the relatively simple forms and coarse textures of stoneware.

Date

late 14th-early 15th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Yamanaka and Co.

Format

Stoneware with wood-ash glaze
HxW: 7.8 x 17.0 cm

Identifier

F1897.86
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Coverage

2
32
North
Goryeo or Joseon period
Korea
United States
New York
New York

Freer

Label Text

Like many of the other tea bowls arranged on the mantel of the Peacock Room in 1908, this example, dating to the sixteenth century, was produced in Korea for a Japanese market. Freer found it, along with a number of similar examples, at the Fifth Avenue branch of Yamanaka and Company. Although many Western collectors of Asian ceramics favored highly decorated porcelains, Freer preferred the relatively simple forms and coarse textures of stoneware.

Object Name

Bowl

Dated

late 14th-early 15th century

Period

Goryeo or Joseon period

Medium

Stoneware with wood-ash glaze

Dimensions

HxW: 7.8 x 17.0 cm

Country

Korea

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

32

Wall

North

Title

Bowl

Object Number

F1897.86

Freer Source

Yamanaka and Co.

Freer Source City

New York

Freer Source State

New York

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

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]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:44 +0000 <![CDATA[Tea bowl with brushed-slip decoration]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3111

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Title

Tea bowl with brushed-slip decoration

Description

Tea bowl
This Korean tea bowl with its cream colored glaze was purchased by Freer in 1897 from the New York branch of Yamanaka and Company, where he was a regular customer. That year, he purchased a number of similarly earth-toned bowls from the shop on Fifth Avenue. More than a decade later, he arrayed a number of them along the top of the mantel in the Peacock Room, just beneath Whistler's painting <i>La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine.</i>

Date

16th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Yamanaka and Co.

Format

Stoneware with white slip under clear glaze
Buncheong ware
HxW: 7.8 x 18.3 cm

Identifier

F1897.64
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Coverage

2
31
North
Joseon period
Korea
United States
New York
New York

Freer

Label Text

This Korean tea bowl with its cream colored glaze was purchased by Freer in 1897 from the New York branch of Yamanaka and Company, where he was a regular customer. That year, he purchased a number of similarly earth-toned bowls from the shop on Fifth Avenue. More than a decade later, he arrayed a number of them along the top of the mantel in the Peacock Room, just beneath Whistler's painting La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine.

Object Name

Tea bowl

Ware

Buncheong ware

Dated

16th century

Period

Joseon period

Medium

Stoneware with white slip under clear glaze

Dimensions

HxW: 7.8 x 18.3 cm

Country

Korea

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

31

Wall

North

Title

Tea bowl with brushed-slip decoration

Object Number

F1897.64

Freer Source

Yamanaka and Co.

Freer Source City

New York

Freer Source State

New York

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

http://141.217.97.109/plugins/Dropbox/files/peacock-jpg/JPEG/F1897.64.jpg

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]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:44 +0000 <![CDATA[Tea bowl, Totoya type]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3110

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Title

Tea bowl, Totoya type

Description

Tea bowl
This comparatively large bowl with straight flaring sides dates to the sixteenth or seventeenth century and was probably made by a Korean potter working in the Karatsu area of Japan. (Karatsu had a long history as a port of trade with both Korean and China.) Freer purchased the piece from Yamanaka and Company in New York in 1898. Ten years later, he displayed it on the mantel of the Peacock Room with a number of other tea bowls acquired from the same dealer.

Date

late 16th-early 17th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Yamanaka and Co.

Format

Stoneware with brushed-slip decoration under feldspathic glaze
HxW: 7.0 x 17.0 cm

Identifier

F1898.87
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Coverage

2
30
North
Joseon period
Korea
United States
New York
New York

Freer

Label Text

This comparatively large bowl with straight flaring sides dates to the sixteenth or seventeenth century and was probably made by a Korean potter working in the Karatsu area of Japan. (Karatsu had a long history as a port of trade with both Korean and China.) Freer purchased the piece from Yamanaka and Company in New York in 1898. Ten years later, he displayed it on the mantel of the Peacock Room with a number of other tea bowls acquired from the same dealer.

Object Name

Tea bowl

Dated

late 16th-early 17th century

Period

Joseon period

Medium

Stoneware with brushed-slip decoration under feldspathic glaze

Dimensions

HxW: 7.0 x 17.0 cm

Country

Korea

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

30

Wall

North

Title

Tea bowl, Totoya type

Object Number

F1898.87

Freer Source

Yamanaka and Co.

Freer Source City

New York

Freer Source State

New York

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

http://141.217.97.109/plugins/Dropbox/files/peacock-jpg/JPEG/F1898.87.jpg

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]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:44 +0000 <![CDATA[Tea bowl]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3109

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Title

Tea bowl

Description

Tea bowl
Waegwan (Wakan) kiln
In the late 1890s, Freer acquired a number of simple, earth-toned tea bowls from the New York branch of Yamanaka and Company, where the collector was a regular customer. He believed this bowl, with its gray yellow-brown glaze and fine dark crackle, was from Japan. Scholars have since debated its origins, wondering if it were perhaps from Korea, not Japan as Freer thought. The most recent thinking is that this bowl is indeed Korean, dating from the Joseon period in the seventeenth century.

Date

17th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Yamanaka and Co.

Format

Stoneware with ash glaze
Busan ware
HxW: 8.6 x 14.7 cm

Identifier

F1898.461
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Coverage

2
29
North
Joseon period
Busan
Korea
United States
New York
New York

Freer

Label Text

In the late 1890s, Freer acquired a number of simple, earth-toned tea bowls from the New York branch of Yamanaka and Company, where the collector was a regular customer. He believed this bowl, with its gray yellow-brown glaze and fine dark crackle, was from Japan. Scholars have since debated its origins, wondering if it were perhaps from Korea, not Japan as Freer thought. The most recent thinking is that this bowl is indeed Korean, dating from the Joseon period in the seventeenth century.

Object Name

Tea bowl

Ware

Busan ware

Dated

17th century

Period

Joseon period

Medium

Stoneware with ash glaze

Dimensions

HxW: 8.6 x 14.7 cm

Locale

Waegwan (Wakan) kiln

City

Busan

Country

Korea

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

29

Wall

North

Title

Tea bowl

Object Number

F1898.461

Freer Source

Yamanaka and Co.

Freer Source City

New York

Freer Source State

New York

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

http://141.217.97.109/plugins/Dropbox/files/peacock-jpg/JPEG/F1898.461.jpg

Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:44 +0000 <![CDATA[Figure of a cat]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3108

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Title

Figure of a cat

Description

Figure
In nineteenth-century Japan, the cat was an occasional companion of courtesans and, in art, suggestive of willfulness, stealth, and eroticism. In the Peacock Room, Freer placed this figure on the mantel alongside a number of earth-toned tea bowls and beneath Whistler's <i>La Princesse du pays de la porcelain</i>, which depicts the Anglo-Greek beauty Christina Spartali in Japanese robes, surrounded by a variety of decorative objects from China and Japan.

Date

19th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Matsuki Bunkyo

Format

Earthenware with iron pigment under clear lead glaze
Probably Kyoto ware
HxWxD: 2.9 x 5.5 x 3.4 cm

Identifier

F1897.33
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Coverage

2
28.1
North
Edo period or Meiji era
Probably Kyoto
Japan
United States
Boston
Massachusetts

Freer

Label Text

In nineteenth-century Japan, the cat was an occasional companion of courtesans and, in art, suggestive of willfulness, stealth, and eroticism. In the Peacock Room, Freer placed this figure on the mantel alongside a number of earth-toned tea bowls and beneath Whistler's La Princesse du pays de la porcelain, which depicts the Anglo-Greek beauty Christina Spartali in Japanese robes, surrounded by a variety of decorative objects from China and Japan.

Object Name

Figure

Ware

Probably Kyoto ware

Dated

19th century

Period

Edo period or Meiji era

Medium

Earthenware with iron pigment under clear lead glaze

Dimensions

HxWxD: 2.9 x 5.5 x 3.4 cm

City

Probably Kyoto

Country

Japan

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

28.1

Wall

North

Title

Figure of a cat

Object Number

F1897.33

Freer Source

Matsuki Bunkyo

Freer Source City

Boston

Freer Source State

Massachusetts

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

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Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:44 +0000 <![CDATA[Tea bowl]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3107

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Title

Tea bowl

Description

Tea bowl
The Englishman James Lord Bowes (1834-1899), who once owned this bowl, began collecting Japanese ceramics at the 1867 Paris Exposition. This piece was an anomaly in his collection, which tended toward elaborate enamel-decorated export wares from Satsuma, Kutani, and Kyoto. Its simplicity and crackled, greenish-brown glaze were, however, very much in keeping with Freer's taste. In 1908, Freer displayed it with an array of similar tea bowls on the mantel beneath Whistler's painting <i>La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine.</i>

Date

late 15th-early 16th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
R. Wagner

Format

Stoneware with ash glaze
Mino or Seto ware
HxWxD: 6.6 x 16.4 x 16.4 cm

Identifier

F1901.49
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Coverage

2
28
North
Muromachi period
Japan
Germany
Berlin

Freer

Label Text

The Englishman James Lord Bowes (1834-1899), who once owned this bowl, began collecting Japanese ceramics at the 1867 Paris Exposition. This piece was an anomaly in his collection, which tended toward elaborate enamel-decorated export wares from Satsuma, Kutani, and Kyoto. Its simplicity and crackled, greenish-brown glaze were, however, very much in keeping with Freer's taste. In 1908, Freer displayed it with an array of similar tea bowls on the mantel beneath Whistler's painting La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine.

Object Name

Tea bowl

Ware

Mino or Seto ware

Dated

late 15th-early 16th century

Period

Muromachi period

Medium

Stoneware with ash glaze

Dimensions

HxWxD: 6.6 x 16.4 x 16.4 cm

Country

Japan

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

28

Wall

North

Title

Tea bowl

Object Number

F1901.49

Freer Source

R. Wagner

Freer Source City

Berlin

Freer Source Country

Germany

Image

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Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:44 +0000 <![CDATA[Tea bowl]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3106

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Title

Tea bowl

Description

Tea bowl
Undae-ri kilns
Korean ceramics such as this small bowl reached Japan through international trade. Their arrival coincided with efforts by Japanese practitioners of the tea ceremony to replace formal Chinese ceramics with a more intimate assemblage of tea utensils. In Korea, this small bowl might have been used for serving pickles or other condiments; in Japan, however, it was used as for tea, as indicated by the ring of brown tea-stain around the rim. In the course of use, the overall coating of white slip turned to dark ivory. This alteration in appearance was an especially prized feature of the undecorated bowls. Their shape and surface qualities had a lasting impact on Japanese preferences in ceramics.

Date

second half of 16th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Yamanaka and Co.

Format

Stoneware with white slip under clear glaze
Buncheong ware, Undae-ri type
HxW: 5.7 x 12.8 cm

Identifier

F1898.71
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Coverage

2
27
North
Joseon period
Korea
United States
New York
New York

Freer

Label Text

Korean ceramics such as this small bowl reached Japan through international trade. Their arrival coincided with efforts by Japanese practitioners of the tea ceremony to replace formal Chinese ceramics with a more intimate assemblage of tea utensils. In Korea, this small bowl might have been used for serving pickles or other condiments; in Japan, however, it was used as for tea, as indicated by the ring of brown tea-stain around the rim. In the course of use, the overall coating of white slip turned to dark ivory. This alteration in appearance was an especially prized feature of the undecorated bowls. Their shape and surface qualities had a lasting impact on Japanese preferences in ceramics.

Object Name

Tea bowl

Ware

Buncheong ware, Undae-ri type

Dated

second half of 16th century

Period

Joseon period

Medium

Stoneware with white slip under clear glaze

Dimensions

HxW: 5.7 x 12.8 cm

Locale

Undae-ri kilns

Country

Korea

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

27

Wall

North

Title

Tea bowl

Object Number

F1898.71

Freer Source

Yamanaka and Co.

Freer Source City

New York

Freer Source State

New York

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

http://141.217.97.109/plugins/Dropbox/files/peacock-jpg/JPEG/F1898.71.jpg

Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:44 +0000 <![CDATA[Jar]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3105

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Title

Jar

Description

Jar
After Freer acquired this highly decayed and damaged Raqqa jar from the Parisian dealer Dikran Kelekian in 1904, he noted that "Kelekian believes that jars of this sort are of early Persian origin. Perhaps Babylonian." Raqqa wares like this jar only began to appear on the art market at the turn of the last century, following the excavation of ancient and medieval pottery in northern Mesopotamia, near modern-day Mosul, and in the south, near Baghdad and along the Gulf. Their cultural and chronological origins were not yet well understood. Even so, Freer was an early enthusiast, finding chromatic harmonies among his already substantial collection of East Asian ceramics, the tonalism of his American paintings, and these iridescent turquoise- and green-glazed vessels from the Near East. He eventually amassed a substantial collection of Near Eastern ceramics. In Detroit, they were prominently featured throughout the Peacock Room, most notably massed around Whistler's <i>La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine</i> and in the eye-level shelves along the west wall.

Date

11th-12th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Dikran G. Kelekian

Format

Stone-paste painted with glaze
HxW: 32.8 x 20.1 cm

Identifier

F1904.171
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Coverage

2
26
North
Syria
France
Paris

Freer

Label Text

After Freer acquired this highly decayed and damaged Raqqa jar from the Parisian dealer Dikran Kelekian in 1904, he noted that "Kelekian believes that jars of this sort are of early Persian origin. Perhaps Babylonian." Raqqa wares like this jar only began to appear on the art market at the turn of the last century, following the excavation of ancient and medieval pottery in northern Mesopotamia, near modern-day Mosul, and in the south, near Baghdad and along the Gulf. Their cultural and chronological origins were not yet well understood. Even so, Freer was an early enthusiast, finding chromatic harmonies among his already substantial collection of East Asian ceramics, the tonalism of his American paintings, and these iridescent turquoise- and green-glazed vessels from the Near East. He eventually amassed a substantial collection of Near Eastern ceramics. In Detroit, they were prominently featured throughout the Peacock Room, most notably massed around Whistler's La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine and in the eye-level shelves along the west wall.

Object Name

Jar

Dated

11th-12th century

Medium

Stone-paste painted with glaze

Dimensions

HxW: 32.8 x 20.1 cm

Country

Syria

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

26

Wall

North

Title

Jar

Object Number

F1904.171

Freer Source

Dikran G. Kelekian

Freer Source City

Paris

Freer Source Country

France

Image

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Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:44 +0000 <![CDATA[Vase]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3104

Dublin Core

Title

Vase

Description

Vase
The Peacock Room, originally the dining room in the home of Frederick R. Leyland, was intended to showcase its owner's extensive collection of Chinese blue-and -white porcelain. Among his 300-plus pieces were examples similar to this vessel. Known as Kangxi ware, these pots were produced in the Jingdezhen region during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722). They became so popular with Victorian consumers that the press mockingly dubbed the craze "Chinamania." <p>When Charles Lang Freer purchased the Peacock Room in London in 1904, it had already been emptied of its blue-and-white porcelains. Freer, in any case, did not care for their slick surfaces and bright glazes. Beginning in the 1980s, the Freer Gallery of Art began to acquire blue-and-whites for display in the Peacock Room, in an effort to evoke the chromatic relationships and pictorial patterns that inspired Whistler and his contemporaries.

Date

ca. 1700

Contributor

Gift of Mrs. Julia Curtis

Format

Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze
HxWxD: 26.4 x 11.4 x 11.4 cm

Identifier

F1991.48
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Coverage

1
25
North
Qing dynasty
Jingdezhen
China

Freer

Label Text

The Peacock Room, originally the dining room in the home of Frederick R. Leyland, was intended to showcase its owner's extensive collection of Chinese blue-and -white porcelain. Among his 300-plus pieces were examples similar to this vessel. Known as Kangxi ware, these pots were produced in the Jingdezhen region during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722). They became so popular with Victorian consumers that the press mockingly dubbed the craze "Chinamania."

When Charles Lang Freer purchased the Peacock Room in London in 1904, it had already been emptied of its blue-and-white porcelains. Freer, in any case, did not care for their slick surfaces and bright glazes. Beginning in the 1980s, the Freer Gallery of Art began to acquire blue-and-whites for display in the Peacock Room, in an effort to evoke the chromatic relationships and pictorial patterns that inspired Whistler and his contemporaries.

Object Name

Vase

Dated

ca. 1700

Period

Qing dynasty

Medium

Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze

Dimensions

HxWxD: 26.4 x 11.4 x 11.4 cm

City

Jingdezhen

Country

China

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Julia Curtis

Iteration

1

Shelf Number

25

Wall

North

Title

Vase

Object Number

F1991.48

Image

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Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:44 +0000 <![CDATA[Bottle with decoration of clouds and phoenixes]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3103

Dublin Core

Title

Bottle with decoration of clouds and phoenixes

Description

Bottle
When Freer loaned this bottle to an exhibition of East Asian ceramics at the Japan Society of New York in February 1914, it was thought to date to the Song dynasty. Like many of the ceramics that Freer purchased from the dealer Matsuki Bunkyo, this vessel has since been identified as dating to the Yuan dynasty. This was not necessarily because Matsuki was misrepresenting his goods; almost no one understood Yuan ceramics well until the 1950s. In the Peacock Room, the bottle was exhibited with other dark, glossy ceramics, some of which were similarly decorated with touches of gold pigment.

Date

13th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Matsuki Bunkyo

Format

Stoneware with dark glaze and traces of gold pigment
Jizhou ware
HxW: 26.4 x 15.5 cm

Identifier

F1905.273
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Coverage

2
25
North
Yuan dynasty
China
United States
Boston
Massachusetts

Freer

Label Text

When Freer loaned this bottle to an exhibition of East Asian ceramics at the Japan Society of New York in February 1914, it was thought to date to the Song dynasty. Like many of the ceramics that Freer purchased from the dealer Matsuki Bunkyo, this vessel has since been identified as dating to the Yuan dynasty. This was not necessarily because Matsuki was misrepresenting his goods; almost no one understood Yuan ceramics well until the 1950s. In the Peacock Room, the bottle was exhibited with other dark, glossy ceramics, some of which were similarly decorated with touches of gold pigment.

Object Name

Bottle

Ware

Jizhou ware

Dated

13th century

Period

Yuan dynasty

Medium

Stoneware with dark glaze and traces of gold pigment

Dimensions

HxW: 26.4 x 15.5 cm

Country

China

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

25

Wall

North

Title

Bottle with decoration of clouds and phoenixes

Object Number

F1905.273

Freer Source

Matsuki Bunkyo

Freer Source City

Boston

Freer Source State

Massachusetts

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

http://141.217.97.109/plugins/Dropbox/files/peacock-jpg/JPEG/F1905.273.jpg

Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:41 +0000 <![CDATA[Tea-leaf storage jar]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3102

Dublin Core

Title

Tea-leaf storage jar

Description

Tea-leaf storage jar (chatsubo)
This dramatic, glossy jar is glazed with a type called "pitch black" by the Japanese. Together with copper-green, cobalt-blue, and opaque white, it was popular for use on small tea-leaf storage jars such as this one, as well as on other still-smaller wares. The unusual depth of color - a feature that no doubt appealed to Freer, who regarded the vessel as "very fine" - was obtained by applying in two coats to a bisque-fired jar. Small glazed tea-leaf storage jars of this sort were probably intended mainly for use in shops selling tea, for storage and display. In the Peacock Room, however, it was placed on a high shelf, next to <i>La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine</i> and near other dark, glossy ceramics.

Date

second half of 19th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Matsuki Bunkyo

Format

Stoneware with "pitch black" glaze; thin iron glaze on interior
Shigaraki ware
HxW: 21.5 x 18.8 cm

Identifier

F1898.435
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Coverage

2
24
North
Edo period or Meiji era
Shigaraki
Japan
United States
Boston
Massachusetts

Freer

Label Text

This dramatic, glossy jar is glazed with a type called "pitch black" by the Japanese. Together with copper-green, cobalt-blue, and opaque white, it was popular for use on small tea-leaf storage jars such as this one, as well as on other still-smaller wares. The unusual depth of color - a feature that no doubt appealed to Freer, who regarded the vessel as "very fine" - was obtained by applying in two coats to a bisque-fired jar. Small glazed tea-leaf storage jars of this sort were probably intended mainly for use in shops selling tea, for storage and display. In the Peacock Room, however, it was placed on a high shelf, next to La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine and near other dark, glossy ceramics.

Object Name

Tea-leaf storage jar (chatsubo)

Ware

Shigaraki ware

Dated

second half of 19th century

Period

Edo period or Meiji era

Medium

Stoneware with "pitch black" glaze; thin iron glaze on interior

Dimensions

HxW: 21.5 x 18.8 cm

City

Shigaraki

Country

Japan

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

24

Wall

North

Title

Tea-leaf storage jar

Object Number

F1898.435

Freer Source

Matsuki Bunkyo

Freer Source City

Boston

Freer Source State

Massachusetts

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

http://141.217.97.109/plugins/Dropbox/files/peacock-jpg/JPEG/F1898.435.jpg

Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:41 +0000 <![CDATA[Sake bottle]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3101

Dublin Core

Title

Sake bottle

Description

Bottle (tokkuri)
Shidoro kilns
This was one of Freer's earliest Asian ceramics purchases. He acquired it in 1893 from Tozo Takayanagi and regarded it as "very fine." His colleague Edward Sylvester Morse, the Boston scholar and collector, disagreed, however: In 1921 he dismissed it as a modern piece and "not worth a damn." In the Peacock Room in Detroit, the bottle was displayed with other dark, glossy ceramics with rich, varied surfaces.

Date

19th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Tozo Takayanagi

Format

Stoneware with ash and iron glazes
Shidoro ware
HxW: 27.5 x 14.8 cm

Identifier

F1893.2
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Coverage

2
22
North
Edo period or Meiji era
Japan
United States
New York
New York

Freer

Label Text

This was one of Freer's earliest Asian ceramics purchases. He acquired it in 1893 from Tozo Takayanagi and regarded it as "very fine." His colleague Edward Sylvester Morse, the Boston scholar and collector, disagreed, however: In 1921 he dismissed it as a modern piece and "not worth a damn." In the Peacock Room in Detroit, the bottle was displayed with other dark, glossy ceramics with rich, varied surfaces.

Object Name

Bottle (tokkuri)

Ware

Shidoro ware

Dated

19th century

Period

Edo period or Meiji era

Medium

Stoneware with ash and iron glazes

Dimensions

HxW: 27.5 x 14.8 cm

Locale

Shidoro kilns

Country

Japan

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

22

Wall

North

Title

Sake bottle

Object Number

F1893.2

Freer Source

Tozo Takayanagi

Freer Source City

New York

Freer Source State

New York

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

http://141.217.97.109/plugins/Dropbox/files/peacock-jpg/JPEG/F1893.2.jpg

Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:41 +0000 <![CDATA[Jar]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3100

Dublin Core

Title

Jar

Description

Jar
Described by Freer as "an interesting specimen," this jar was one of a number of Near Eastern ceramics shipped to him on approval by the Parisian art dealer Dikran Kelekian. In 1903, when he purchased this vessel, Freer had only recently turned his attention to ancient and medieval glazed wares from the Near East. As the availability of Japanese art in Western markets began to decline, Kelekian and other dealers looked to the arts of the Islamic world, where recent unofficial excavations had made ceramics and textiles available. This vessel, which dates to the seventeenth or eighteenth century, was already ravaged by time, with a broken foot, a hole in one side, and yellow and brown discolorations all over the brilliant cream-colored glaze. Freer, however, regarded these imperfections as aesthetically distinctive, and because of this, Raqqa ware was especially appealing to Freer. He discerned chromatic harmonies among his already-substantial collection of East Asian ceramics, his tonalist American paintings, and the iridescent glazed vessels from the Near East. He eventually amassed a substantial collection of Near Eastern ceramics. In Detroit, they were prominently featured throughout the Peacock Room, most notably massed around Whistler's <i>La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine</i> and in the eye-level shelves along the west wall.

Date

17th-18th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Dikran G. Kelekian

Format

Stone-paste painted under glaze
HxW: 34.0 x 23.5 cm

Identifier

F1903.188
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Coverage

2
22
North
Syria
France
Paris

Freer

Label Text

Described by Freer as "an interesting specimen," this jar was one of a number of Near Eastern ceramics shipped to him on approval by the Parisian art dealer Dikran Kelekian. In 1903, when he purchased this vessel, Freer had only recently turned his attention to ancient and medieval glazed wares from the Near East. As the availability of Japanese art in Western markets began to decline, Kelekian and other dealers looked to the arts of the Islamic world, where recent unofficial excavations had made ceramics and textiles available. This vessel, which dates to the seventeenth or eighteenth century, was already ravaged by time, with a broken foot, a hole in one side, and yellow and brown discolorations all over the brilliant cream-colored glaze. Freer, however, regarded these imperfections as aesthetically distinctive, and because of this, Raqqa ware was especially appealing to Freer. He discerned chromatic harmonies among his already-substantial collection of East Asian ceramics, his tonalist American paintings, and the iridescent glazed vessels from the Near East. He eventually amassed a substantial collection of Near Eastern ceramics. In Detroit, they were prominently featured throughout the Peacock Room, most notably massed around Whistler's La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine and in the eye-level shelves along the west wall.

Object Name

Jar

Dated

17th-18th century

Medium

Stone-paste painted under glaze

Dimensions

HxW: 34.0 x 23.5 cm

Country

Syria

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

22

Wall

North

Title

Jar

Object Number

F1903.188

Freer Source

Dikran G. Kelekian

Freer Source City

Paris

Freer Source Country

France

Image

http://141.217.97.109/plugins/Dropbox/files/peacock-jpg/JPEG/F1903.188.jpg

Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:41 +0000 <![CDATA["Ginger jar" with cover, one of a pair with F1995.3.2 a-b]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3099

Dublin Core

Title

"Ginger jar" with cover, one of a pair with F1995.3.2 a-b

Description

Jar
The Peacock Room, originally the dining room in the home of Frederick R. Leyland, was intended to showcase its owner's extensive collection of Chinese blue-and -white porcelain. Among his 300-plus pieces were examples similar to this vessel. Known as Kangxi ware, these pots were produced in the Jingdezhen region during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722). They became so popular with Victorian consumers that the press mockingly dubbed the craze "Chinamania." <p>When Charles Lang Freer purchased the Peacock Room in London in 1904, it had already been emptied of its blue-and-white porcelains. Freer, in any case, did not care for their slick surfaces and bright glazes. Beginning in the 1980s, the Freer Gallery of Art began to acquire blue-and-whites for display in the Peacock Room, in an effort to evoke the chromatic relationships and pictorial patterns that inspired Whistler and his contemporaries.

Date

mid 17th-early 18th century

Contributor

Purchase

Format

Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze
HxWxD: 26.4 x 20.3 x 20.3 cm

Identifier

F1995.3.1a-b
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Coverage

1
22
North
Qing dynasty
Jingdezhen
China

Freer

Label Text

The Peacock Room, originally the dining room in the home of Frederick R. Leyland, was intended to showcase its owner's extensive collection of Chinese blue-and -white porcelain. Among his 300-plus pieces were examples similar to this vessel. Known as Kangxi ware, these pots were produced in the Jingdezhen region during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722). They became so popular with Victorian consumers that the press mockingly dubbed the craze "Chinamania."

When Charles Lang Freer purchased the Peacock Room in London in 1904, it had already been emptied of its blue-and-white porcelains. Freer, in any case, did not care for their slick surfaces and bright glazes. Beginning in the 1980s, the Freer Gallery of Art began to acquire blue-and-whites for display in the Peacock Room, in an effort to evoke the chromatic relationships and pictorial patterns that inspired Whistler and his contemporaries.

Object Name

Jar

Dated

mid 17th-early 18th century

Period

Qing dynasty

Medium

Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze

Dimensions

HxWxD: 26.4 x 20.3 x 20.3 cm

City

Jingdezhen

Country

China

Credit Line

Purchase

Iteration

1

Shelf Number

22

Wall

North

Title

"Ginger jar" with cover, one of a pair with F1995.3.2 a-b

Object Number

F1995.3.1a-b

Image

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Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:41 +0000 <![CDATA[Dish]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3098

Dublin Core

Title

Dish

Description

Dish
The Peacock Room, originally the dining room in the home of Frederick R. Leyland, was intended to showcase its owner's extensive collection of Chinese blue-and -white porcelain. Among his 300-plus pieces were examples similar to this vessel. Known as Kangxi ware, these pots were produced in the Jingdezhen region during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722). They became so popular with Victorian consumers that the press mockingly dubbed the craze "Chinamania." <p>When Charles Lang Freer purchased the Peacock Room in London in 1904, it had already been emptied of its blue-and-white porcelains. Freer, in any case, did not care for their slick surfaces and bright glazes. Beginning in the 1980s, the Freer Gallery of Art began to acquire blue-and-whites for display in the Peacock Room, in an effort to evoke the chromatic relationships and pictorial patterns that inspired Whistler and his contemporaries.

Date

late 17th-early 18th century

Contributor

Gift of the Lydman Collection

Format

Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze
HxWxD: 4.8 x 21.3 x 21.3 cm

Identifier

F1992.35
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Coverage

1
21
North
Qing dynasty
Jingdezhen
China

Freer

Label Text

The Peacock Room, originally the dining room in the home of Frederick R. Leyland, was intended to showcase its owner's extensive collection of Chinese blue-and -white porcelain. Among his 300-plus pieces were examples similar to this vessel. Known as Kangxi ware, these pots were produced in the Jingdezhen region during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722). They became so popular with Victorian consumers that the press mockingly dubbed the craze "Chinamania."

When Charles Lang Freer purchased the Peacock Room in London in 1904, it had already been emptied of its blue-and-white porcelains. Freer, in any case, did not care for their slick surfaces and bright glazes. Beginning in the 1980s, the Freer Gallery of Art began to acquire blue-and-whites for display in the Peacock Room, in an effort to evoke the chromatic relationships and pictorial patterns that inspired Whistler and his contemporaries.

Object Name

Dish

Dated

late 17th-early 18th century

Period

Qing dynasty

Medium

Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze

Dimensions

HxWxD: 4.8 x 21.3 x 21.3 cm

City

Jingdezhen

Country

China

Credit Line

Gift of the Lydman Collection

Iteration

1

Shelf Number

21

Wall

North

Title

Dish

Object Number

F1992.35

Image

http://141.217.97.109/plugins/Dropbox/files/peacock-jpg/JPEG/F1992.35.jpg

Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:41 +0000 <![CDATA[Bottle]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3097

Dublin Core

Title

Bottle

Description

Bottle
Jizhou kilns
The geographical origins of this bottle were not known to Freer, who purchased it from the Parisian dealer Siegfried Bing along with a number of other East Asian ceramics. Nevertheless, the collector described it as "very important" and suggested that it be exhibited occasionally by itself, as well with groupings of Temmoku wares. In the Peacock Room he placed it adjacent to earth-toned Japanese tea bowls, iridescent Raqqa ware, an antique Roman faience jar, and a Song dynasty tomb jar.

Date

13th-14th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Siegfried Bing

Format

Stoneware with iron glaze splashed with ash glaze
Jizhou ware
HxW: 34.2 x 19.4 cm

Identifier

F1901.65
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Coverage

2
21
North
Yuan dynasty
China
France
Paris

Freer

Label Text

The geographical origins of this bottle were not known to Freer, who purchased it from the Parisian dealer Siegfried Bing along with a number of other East Asian ceramics. Nevertheless, the collector described it as "very important" and suggested that it be exhibited occasionally by itself, as well with groupings of Temmoku wares. In the Peacock Room he placed it adjacent to earth-toned Japanese tea bowls, iridescent Raqqa ware, an antique Roman faience jar, and a Song dynasty tomb jar.

Object Name

Bottle

Ware

Jizhou ware

Dated

13th-14th century

Period

Yuan dynasty

Medium

Stoneware with iron glaze splashed with ash glaze

Dimensions

HxW: 34.2 x 19.4 cm

Locale

Jizhou kilns

Country

China

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

21

Wall

North

Title

Bottle

Object Number

F1901.65

Freer Source

Siegfried Bing

Freer Source City

Paris

Freer Source Country

France

Image

http://141.217.97.109/plugins/Dropbox/files/peacock-jpg/JPEG/F1901.65.jpg

Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:41 +0000 <![CDATA[Tomb jar]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3096

Dublin Core

Title

Tomb jar

Description

Tomb jar
This tall slender tomb jar from the Southern Song dynasty is one of eight such elaborately decorated vessels that Freer displayed as pairs in the Peacock Room in Detroit. He purchased this example from the New York gallery of Yamanaka and Company, and he was told that it and other "specimens of this kind" had been "recovered from ancient Buddhist tombs" in Korea. While that was probably true, this particular jar is now known to be Chinese in origin and to date to the thirteenth century. Originally an accoutrement of burial in China as well as Korea, it would have been paired with another jar of the same shape, both of which would have held funeral offerings of grain meant to assist the deceased in the afterlife.

Date

13th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Yamanaka and Co.

Format

Stoneware with celadon glaze
Longquan ware
HxW: 47.9 x 17.5 cm

Identifier

F1906.250
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Coverage

2
20
North
Southern Song dynasty
Longquan
China
United States
New York
New York

Freer

Label Text

This tall slender tomb jar from the Southern Song dynasty is one of eight such elaborately decorated vessels that Freer displayed as pairs in the Peacock Room in Detroit. He purchased this example from the New York gallery of Yamanaka and Company, and he was told that it and other "specimens of this kind" had been "recovered from ancient Buddhist tombs" in Korea. While that was probably true, this particular jar is now known to be Chinese in origin and to date to the thirteenth century. Originally an accoutrement of burial in China as well as Korea, it would have been paired with another jar of the same shape, both of which would have held funeral offerings of grain meant to assist the deceased in the afterlife.

Object Name

Tomb jar

Ware

Longquan ware

Dated

13th century

Period

Southern Song dynasty

Medium

Stoneware with celadon glaze

Dimensions

HxW: 47.9 x 17.5 cm

City

Longquan

Country

China

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

20

Wall

North

Title

Tomb jar

Object Number

F1906.250

Freer Source

Yamanaka and Co.

Freer Source City

New York

Freer Source State

New York

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

http://141.217.97.109/plugins/Dropbox/files/peacock-jpg/JPEG/F1906.250.jpg

Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:37 +0000 <![CDATA[Tea-leaf storage jar with five lugs]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3095

Dublin Core

Title

Tea-leaf storage jar with five lugs

Description

Jar
This seventeenth-century tea-leaf storage jar came to Freer through the New York branch of Yamanaka and Company, one of his favorite sources for East Asian ceramics. This jar, with its blue-green copper-based glaze, appears in the Peacock Room in Detroit on a shelf near <i>La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine</i>, where it was grouped with a diverse array of East and West Asian pots, including Southern Song tomb jars, Japanese tea wares, and iridescent Raqqa ware.

Date

1630-1660

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Yamanaka and Co.

Format

Stoneware with copper-tinted rice-straw-ash glaze and feldspathic glaze
Karatsu ware, Takeo Karatsu type
HxW: 25.4 x 21.4 cm

Identifier

F1899.60
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Coverage

2
19
North
Edo period
Japan
United States
New York
New York

Freer

Label Text

This seventeenth-century tea-leaf storage jar came to Freer through the New York branch of Yamanaka and Company, one of his favorite sources for East Asian ceramics. This jar, with its blue-green copper-based glaze, appears in the Peacock Room in Detroit on a shelf near La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine, where it was grouped with a diverse array of East and West Asian pots, including Southern Song tomb jars, Japanese tea wares, and iridescent Raqqa ware.

Object Name

Jar

Ware

Karatsu ware, Takeo Karatsu type

Dated

1630-1660

Period

Edo period

Medium

Stoneware with copper-tinted rice-straw-ash glaze and feldspathic glaze

Dimensions

HxW: 25.4 x 21.4 cm

Country

Japan

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

19

Wall

North

Title

Tea-leaf storage jar with five lugs

Object Number

F1899.60

Freer Source

Yamanaka and Co.

Freer Source City

New York

Freer Source State

New York

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

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Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:37 +0000 <![CDATA[Dish, one of a pair with F1992.48.1]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3094

Dublin Core

Title

Dish, one of a pair with F1992.48.1

Description

Dish
The Peacock Room, originally the dining room in the home of Frederick R. Leyland, was intended to showcase its owner's extensive collection of Chinese blue-and -white porcelain. Among his 300-plus pieces were examples similar to this vessel. Known as Kangxi ware, these pots were produced in the Jingdezhen region during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722). They became so popular with Victorian consumers that the press mockingly dubbed the craze "Chinamania." <p>When Charles Lang Freer purchased the Peacock Room in London in 1904, it had already been emptied of its blue-and-white porcelains. Freer, in any case, did not care for their slick surfaces and bright glazes. Beginning in the 1980s, the Freer Gallery of Art began to acquire blue-and-whites for display in the Peacock Room, in an effort to evoke the chromatic relationships and pictorial patterns that inspired Whistler and his contemporaries.

Date

mid 17th-early 18th century

Contributor

Gift of Mr. Pierre Durand

Format

Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze
HxWxD: 2.2 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm

Identifier

F1992.48.1
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Coverage

1
19
North
Qing dynasty
Jingdezhen
China

Freer

Label Text

The Peacock Room, originally the dining room in the home of Frederick R. Leyland, was intended to showcase its owner's extensive collection of Chinese blue-and -white porcelain. Among his 300-plus pieces were examples similar to this vessel. Known as Kangxi ware, these pots were produced in the Jingdezhen region during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722). They became so popular with Victorian consumers that the press mockingly dubbed the craze "Chinamania."

When Charles Lang Freer purchased the Peacock Room in London in 1904, it had already been emptied of its blue-and-white porcelains. Freer, in any case, did not care for their slick surfaces and bright glazes. Beginning in the 1980s, the Freer Gallery of Art began to acquire blue-and-whites for display in the Peacock Room, in an effort to evoke the chromatic relationships and pictorial patterns that inspired Whistler and his contemporaries.

Object Name

Dish

Dated

mid 17th-early 18th century

Period

Qing dynasty

Medium

Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze

Dimensions

HxWxD: 2.2 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm

City

Jingdezhen

Country

China

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. Pierre Durand

Iteration

1

Shelf Number

19

Wall

North

Title

Dish, one of a pair with F1992.48.1

Object Number

F1992.48.1

Image

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Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:37 +0000 <![CDATA[Vase, one of a pair with F1992.13.2]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3093

Dublin Core

Title

Vase, one of a pair with F1992.13.2

Description

Vase
The Peacock Room, originally the dining room in the home of Frederick R. Leyland, was intended to showcase its owner's extensive collection of Chinese blue-and -white porcelain. Among his 300-plus pieces were examples similar to this vessel. Known as Kangxi ware, these pots were produced in the Jingdezhen region during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722). They became so popular with Victorian consumers that the press mockingly dubbed the craze "Chinamania." <p>When Charles Lang Freer purchased the Peacock Room in London in 1904, it had already been emptied of its blue-and-white porcelains. Freer, in any case, did not care for their slick surfaces and bright glazes. Beginning in the 1980s, the Freer Gallery of Art began to acquire blue-and-whites for display in the Peacock Room, in an effort to evoke the chromatic relationships and pictorial patterns that inspired Whistler and his contemporaries.

Date

mid 17th-early 18th century

Contributor

Gift of Mr. Pierre Durand

Format

Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze
HxWxD: 44.5 x 21.6 x 21.6 cm

Identifier

F1992.13.1
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Coverage

1
18
North
Qing dynasty
Jingdezhen
China

Freer

Label Text

The Peacock Room, originally the dining room in the home of Frederick R. Leyland, was intended to showcase its owner's extensive collection of Chinese blue-and -white porcelain. Among his 300-plus pieces were examples similar to this vessel. Known as Kangxi ware, these pots were produced in the Jingdezhen region during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722). They became so popular with Victorian consumers that the press mockingly dubbed the craze "Chinamania."

When Charles Lang Freer purchased the Peacock Room in London in 1904, it had already been emptied of its blue-and-white porcelains. Freer, in any case, did not care for their slick surfaces and bright glazes. Beginning in the 1980s, the Freer Gallery of Art began to acquire blue-and-whites for display in the Peacock Room, in an effort to evoke the chromatic relationships and pictorial patterns that inspired Whistler and his contemporaries.

Object Name

Vase

Dated

mid 17th-early 18th century

Period

Qing dynasty

Medium

Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze

Dimensions

HxWxD: 44.5 x 21.6 x 21.6 cm

City

Jingdezhen

Country

China

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. Pierre Durand

Iteration

1

Shelf Number

18

Wall

North

Title

Vase, one of a pair with F1992.13.2

Object Number

F1992.13.1

Image

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Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:37 +0000 <![CDATA[Tomb jar]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3092

Dublin Core

Title

Tomb jar

Description

Tomb jar
This tall slender tomb jar from the Southern Song dynasty is one of eight such elaborately decorated vessels that Freer displayed as pairs in the Peacock Room in Detroit. He purchased this example from the New York gallery of Yamanaka and Company, and he was told that it and other "specimens of this kind" had been "recovered from ancient Buddhist tombs" in Korea. While that was probably true, this particular jar is now known to be Chinese in origin and to date to the thirteenth century. Originally an accoutrement of burial in China as well as Korea, it would have been paired with another jar of the same shape, both of which would have held funeral offerings of grain meant to assist the deceased in the afterlife.

Date

13th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Yamanaka and Co.

Format

Porcelain with bluish transparent (qingbai) glaze.
Qingbai ware
HxW: 36.7 x 11.0 cm

Identifier

F1905.91
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Coverage

2
18
North
Southern Song dynasty
China
United States
New York
New York

Freer

Label Text

This tall slender tomb jar from the Southern Song dynasty is one of eight such elaborately decorated vessels that Freer displayed as pairs in the Peacock Room in Detroit. He purchased this example from the New York gallery of Yamanaka and Company, and he was told that it and other "specimens of this kind" had been "recovered from ancient Buddhist tombs" in Korea. While that was probably true, this particular jar is now known to be Chinese in origin and to date to the thirteenth century. Originally an accoutrement of burial in China as well as Korea, it would have been paired with another jar of the same shape, both of which would have held funeral offerings of grain meant to assist the deceased in the afterlife.

Object Name

Tomb jar

Ware

Qingbai ware

Dated

13th century

Period

Southern Song dynasty

Medium

Porcelain with bluish transparent (qingbai) glaze.

Dimensions

HxW: 36.7 x 11.0 cm

Country

China

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

18

Wall

North

Title

Tomb jar

Object Number

F1905.91

Freer Source

Yamanaka and Co.

Freer Source City

New York

Freer Source State

New York

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

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]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:37 +0000 <![CDATA[Tea-ceremony water jar]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3091

Dublin Core

Title

Tea-ceremony water jar

Description

Tea ceremony water jar (hitoeguchi mizusashi)
The simple bucket shape of this early seventeenth-century Japanese lidded jar disguises the intricate workmanship which produced it. In Japanese, the shape is known as <i>hitoe-guchi</i>, literally, "plain rim," and it began to be made in the sixteenth century, probably from a Chinese bronze prototype. The shape is so versatile that it became a classic pottery model that continued to be produced at Seto kilns throughout the Edo period. Although this pottery was thrown on a wheel, the throwing marks are unobtrusive, a mark of quality craftsmanship. The finishing technique involved hand-trimming or carving, after which several glazes were applied to produce a richly mottled surface, as was customary of Chinese ceramics. The thin lacquered wooden lid overhangs the rim slightly and accentuates the vessel's elegant shape. When Edward Sylvester Morse, the nineteenth-century Boston scholar and collector, first encountered this water jar in Freer's collection, he is said to have exclaimed, "My God, that's great. Wonderful things&#151;ripping&#151;a corker."

Date

early 17th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Yamanaka and Co.

Format

Stoneware with iron and ash glazes; lacquered wooden lid
Seto ware
HxWxD: 16.3 x 20.4 x 20.4 cm

Identifier

F1898.454a-b
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Coverage

2
17
North
Edo period
Seto
Japan
United States
New York
New York

Freer

Label Text

The simple bucket shape of this early seventeenth-century Japanese lidded jar disguises the intricate workmanship which produced it. In Japanese, the shape is known as hitoe-guchi, literally, "plain rim," and it began to be made in the sixteenth century, probably from a Chinese bronze prototype. The shape is so versatile that it became a classic pottery model that continued to be produced at Seto kilns throughout the Edo period. Although this pottery was thrown on a wheel, the throwing marks are unobtrusive, a mark of quality craftsmanship. The finishing technique involved hand-trimming or carving, after which several glazes were applied to produce a richly mottled surface, as was customary of Chinese ceramics. The thin lacquered wooden lid overhangs the rim slightly and accentuates the vessel's elegant shape. When Edward Sylvester Morse, the nineteenth-century Boston scholar and collector, first encountered this water jar in Freer's collection, he is said to have exclaimed, "My God, that's great. Wonderful things—ripping—a corker."

Object Name

Tea ceremony water jar (hitoeguchi mizusashi)

Ware

Seto ware

Dated

early 17th century

Period

Edo period

Medium

Stoneware with iron and ash glazes; lacquered wooden lid

Dimensions

HxWxD: 16.3 x 20.4 x 20.4 cm

City

Seto

Country

Japan

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

17

Wall

North

Title

Tea-ceremony water jar

Object Number

F1898.454a-b

Freer Source

Yamanaka and Co.

Freer Source City

New York

Freer Source State

New York

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

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Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:37 +0000 <![CDATA[Jar]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3090

Dublin Core

Title

Jar

Description

Jar
In an undated note, Freer referred to this two-handled Roman period jar as worthy of "study, but not for an individual case exhibition." Freer purchased it in 1907 from Dikran Kelekian, one of his customary sources for Raqqa ware and other Near Eastern ceramics. Originally thought to be of Egyptian origin, the vessel is now understood to be Roman. It is an example of faience, a type of fine tin-glazed pottery originally associated with Faenza in Northern Italy, but more accurately derived from Middle Eastern pottery techniques. Examples of this type of pottery have been produced throughout Europe since ancient times.

Date

100-200 C.E.

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Dikran G. Kelekian

Format

Faience (glazed composition)
HxW: 24.7 x 18.8 cm

Identifier

F1907.280
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Coverage

2
16
North
Roman Period
Egypt
France
Paris

Freer

Label Text

In an undated note, Freer referred to this two-handled Roman period jar as worthy of "study, but not for an individual case exhibition." Freer purchased it in 1907 from Dikran Kelekian, one of his customary sources for Raqqa ware and other Near Eastern ceramics. Originally thought to be of Egyptian origin, the vessel is now understood to be Roman. It is an example of faience, a type of fine tin-glazed pottery originally associated with Faenza in Northern Italy, but more accurately derived from Middle Eastern pottery techniques. Examples of this type of pottery have been produced throughout Europe since ancient times.

Object Name

Jar

Dated

100-200 C.E.

Period

Roman Period

Medium

Faience (glazed composition)

Dimensions

HxW: 24.7 x 18.8 cm

Country

Egypt

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

16

Wall

North

Title

Jar

Object Number

F1907.280

Freer Source

Dikran G. Kelekian

Freer Source City

Paris

Freer Source Country

France

Image

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Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:34 +0000 <![CDATA[Tea bowl]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3089

Dublin Core

Title

Tea bowl

Description

Tea bowl
Freer purchased this Japanese tea bowl from the New York branch of Yamanaka and Company, whose Fifth Avenue shop was an important source of Japanese and Chinese art for many American collectors at the turn of the century. This piece was one of more than twenty-five tea bowls that Freer acquired from Yamanaka in 1897. He displayed several of them in the Peacock Room in Detroit, where he organized them alongside Whistler's painting <i>La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine.</i>

Date

18th-19th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Yamanaka and Co.

Format

Stoneware with ash glaze
Possibly Hagi ware
HxW: 10.4 x 11.6 cm

Identifier

F1897.68
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Coverage

2
15
North
Edo period
Japan
United States
New York
New York

Freer

Label Text

Freer purchased this Japanese tea bowl from the New York branch of Yamanaka and Company, whose Fifth Avenue shop was an important source of Japanese and Chinese art for many American collectors at the turn of the century. This piece was one of more than twenty-five tea bowls that Freer acquired from Yamanaka in 1897. He displayed several of them in the Peacock Room in Detroit, where he organized them alongside Whistler's painting La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine.

Object Name

Tea bowl

Ware

Possibly Hagi ware

Dated

18th-19th century

Period

Edo period

Medium

Stoneware with ash glaze

Dimensions

HxW: 10.4 x 11.6 cm

Country

Japan

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

15

Wall

North

Title

Tea bowl

Object Number

F1897.68

Freer Source

Yamanaka and Co.

Freer Source City

New York

Freer Source State

New York

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

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Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:34 +0000 <![CDATA[Vase]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3088

Dublin Core

Title

Vase

Description

Vase
Ryumonji kilns
Described by Freer as "rare, but not beautiful," this Satsuma-ware vase was purchased from the Boston-based Japanese dealer Matsuki Bunkyo. Its distinctive "frog skin" glaze, created by applying successive layers of dark and light glazes, was developed at the Genryuin (or Nishi Mochida) kiln, which operated between 1667 and 1746. In the Peacock Room in Detroit, it was displayed alongside a number of other vessels with dark, complex glazes and mottled surfaces.

Date

17th-18th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Matsuki Bunkyo

Format

Stoneware with iron and ash glazes
Satsuma ware, Ryumonji kilns
HxW: 25.4 x 11.3 cm

Identifier

F1902.216
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Coverage

2
14
North
Edo period
Kajiki
Japan
United States
Boston
Massachusetts

Freer

Label Text

Described by Freer as "rare, but not beautiful," this Satsuma-ware vase was purchased from the Boston-based Japanese dealer Matsuki Bunkyo. Its distinctive "frog skin" glaze, created by applying successive layers of dark and light glazes, was developed at the Genryuin (or Nishi Mochida) kiln, which operated between 1667 and 1746. In the Peacock Room in Detroit, it was displayed alongside a number of other vessels with dark, complex glazes and mottled surfaces.

Object Name

Vase

Ware

Satsuma ware, Ryumonji kilns

Dated

17th-18th century

Period

Edo period

Medium

Stoneware with iron and ash glazes

Dimensions

HxW: 25.4 x 11.3 cm

Locale

Ryumonji kilns

City

Kajiki

Country

Japan

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

14

Wall

North

Title

Vase

Object Number

F1902.216

Freer Source

Matsuki Bunkyo

Freer Source City

Boston

Freer Source State

Massachusetts

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

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Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:34 +0000 <![CDATA[Sake flask]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3087

Dublin Core

Title

Sake flask

Description

Sake flask (heishi)
Ryumonji kilns
This Satsuma ware vessel was probably made as a ceremonial sake flask for use in a Shinto shrine, where it would have been part of a matched pair. Describing it for the catalogue to a 1914 exhibition held at the Japan Society in New York, Edward Sylvester Morse, who thought the vase was "ripping," remarked on the "variable purplish brown" glaze overlaid with a "thin mirror-glaze of rich black mingling with one of powdered tea color, these being allowed to run in rills or streamlets of greater or less length down the body." The fine-grained, purplish "iron sand" glaze seems to have been a specialty of Satsuma kilns, but in this case, the glaze effects were in fact the result of more accident and less intent than Morse understood. <p>Freer had described the jar with similar enthusiasm, noting that it was "very fine." In his notes on the design and layout of the museum in Washington, he suggested that it should be exhibited in an individual case. In the Peacock Room in Detroit, however, he placed it on what is now the north wall, just to the left of the <i>La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine</i> and adjacent to a number of other similarly dark, monochromatic vessels from China and Japan.

Date

17th-18th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
R. E. Moore

Format

Stoneware with iron glazes
Satsuma ware, Ryumonji kilns
HxWxD: 37.5 x 21.2 x 21.2 cm

Identifier

F1896.34
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Coverage

2
13
North
Edo period
Kajiki town
Japan
United States
New York
New York

Freer

Label Text

This Satsuma ware vessel was probably made as a ceremonial sake flask for use in a Shinto shrine, where it would have been part of a matched pair. Describing it for the catalogue to a 1914 exhibition held at the Japan Society in New York, Edward Sylvester Morse, who thought the vase was "ripping," remarked on the "variable purplish brown" glaze overlaid with a "thin mirror-glaze of rich black mingling with one of powdered tea color, these being allowed to run in rills or streamlets of greater or less length down the body." The fine-grained, purplish "iron sand" glaze seems to have been a specialty of Satsuma kilns, but in this case, the glaze effects were in fact the result of more accident and less intent than Morse understood.

Freer had described the jar with similar enthusiasm, noting that it was "very fine." In his notes on the design and layout of the museum in Washington, he suggested that it should be exhibited in an individual case. In the Peacock Room in Detroit, however, he placed it on what is now the north wall, just to the left of the La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine and adjacent to a number of other similarly dark, monochromatic vessels from China and Japan.

Object Name

Sake flask (heishi)

Ware

Satsuma ware, Ryumonji kilns

Dated

17th-18th century

Period

Edo period

Medium

Stoneware with iron glazes

Dimensions

HxWxD: 37.5 x 21.2 x 21.2 cm

Locale

Ryumonji kilns

City

Kajiki town

Country

Japan

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

13

Wall

North

Title

Sake flask

Object Number

F1896.34

Freer Source

R. E. Moore

Freer Source City

New York

Freer Source State

New York

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

http://141.217.97.109/plugins/Dropbox/files/peacock-jpg/JPEG/F1896.34.jpg

Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:34 +0000 <![CDATA[Vase]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3086

Dublin Core

Title

Vase

Description

Vase
The Peacock Room, originally the dining room in the home of Frederick R. Leyland, was intended to showcase its owner's extensive collection of Chinese blue-and -white porcelain. Among his 300-plus pieces were examples similar to this vessel. Known as Kangxi ware, these pots were produced in the Jingdezhen region during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722). They became so popular with Victorian consumers that the press mockingly dubbed the craze "Chinamania." <p>When Charles Lang Freer purchased the Peacock Room in London in 1904, it had already been emptied of its blue-and-white porcelains. Freer, in any case, did not care for their slick surfaces and bright glazes. Beginning in the 1980s, the Freer Gallery of Art began to acquire blue-and-whites for display in the Peacock Room, in an effort to evoke the chromatic relationships and pictorial patterns that inspired Whistler and his contemporaries.

Date

1662-1722

Contributor

Gift of Henry and Ruth Trubner

Format

Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze
HxWxD: 42.7 x 15.9 x 15.9 cm

Identifier

F1993.7.1
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Coverage

1
13
North
Qing dynasty
Jingdezhen
China

Freer

Label Text

The Peacock Room, originally the dining room in the home of Frederick R. Leyland, was intended to showcase its owner's extensive collection of Chinese blue-and -white porcelain. Among his 300-plus pieces were examples similar to this vessel. Known as Kangxi ware, these pots were produced in the Jingdezhen region during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722). They became so popular with Victorian consumers that the press mockingly dubbed the craze "Chinamania."

When Charles Lang Freer purchased the Peacock Room in London in 1904, it had already been emptied of its blue-and-white porcelains. Freer, in any case, did not care for their slick surfaces and bright glazes. Beginning in the 1980s, the Freer Gallery of Art began to acquire blue-and-whites for display in the Peacock Room, in an effort to evoke the chromatic relationships and pictorial patterns that inspired Whistler and his contemporaries.

Object Name

Vase

Dated

1662-1722

Period

Qing dynasty

Medium

Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze

Dimensions

HxWxD: 42.7 x 15.9 x 15.9 cm

City

Jingdezhen

Country

China

Credit Line

Gift of Henry and Ruth Trubner

Iteration

1

Shelf Number

13

Wall

North

Title

Vase

Object Number

F1993.7.1

Image

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Still Image Item Type Metadata

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:34 +0000 <![CDATA[Vase]]> https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3085

Dublin Core

Title

Vase

Description

Vase
This striking Ming dynasty stoneware vase with a translucent crackled glaze was loaned by Freer to several exhibitions during his lifetime, including a 1914 presentation at the Japan Society of New York, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1916, where it was part of an exhibition of "early Chinese pottery and sculpture." Freer had purchased it in 1908 from the New York gallery of Yamanaka and Company. Later that same year, he placed it in the Peacock Room on a prominent shelf adjacent to Whistler's painting <i>La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine</i> and flanked by a pair of similarly tall, slender Southern Song tomb jars.

Date

16th-mid 17th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Yamanaka and Co.

Format

Stoneware with white slip under clear glaze; copper rim.
Dongkhe ware
HxW: 49.6 x 15.1 cm

Identifier

F1908.18a-b
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Coverage

2
12
North
Ming dynasty
China
United States
New York
New York

Freer

Label Text

This striking Ming dynasty stoneware vase with a translucent crackled glaze was loaned by Freer to several exhibitions during his lifetime, including a 1914 presentation at the Japan Society of New York, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1916, where it was part of an exhibition of "early Chinese pottery and sculpture." Freer had purchased it in 1908 from the New York gallery of Yamanaka and Company. Later that same year, he placed it in the Peacock Room on a prominent shelf adjacent to Whistler's painting La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine and flanked by a pair of similarly tall, slender Southern Song tomb jars.

Object Name

Vase

Ware

Dongkhe ware

Dated

16th-mid 17th century

Period

Ming dynasty

Medium

Stoneware with white slip under clear glaze; copper rim.

Dimensions

HxW: 49.6 x 15.1 cm

Country

China

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

12

Wall

North

Title

Vase

Object Number

F1908.18a-b

Freer Source

Yamanaka and Co.

Freer Source City

New York

Freer Source State

New York

Freer Source Country

United States

Image

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