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Title

Vase

Description

Vase
"Splendid" was the way that Freer described this cobalt blue glazed vase decorated with a barely discernible incised floral design. He believed it to be an ancient Chinese vessel from the Han dynasty. The first director of the Freer Gallery of Art, John Lodge, was unconvinced: "Don't know what this is," he confessed in an undated note. Most recently, scholars of ceramics have speculated that this vase may have been the product of a late nineteenth-century European art pottery studio, though the gold-lacquer repair on the foot indicates that it may have passed through Japan at some point. In any event, it was the mottled, brilliant blue color-and not the historical origins of the piece-that most interested Freer. In the Peacock Room in Detroit, he displayed it to the right of <i>La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine</i>, surrounded by iridescent pieces of Raqqa ware.

Date

19th century

Contributor

Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Yamanaka and Co.

Format

Stoneware with cobalt-blue salt glaze
HxW: 28.9 x 19.3 cm

Identifier

F1902.35
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Coverage

2
49
North
Japan or Europe
United States
New York
New York

Freer

Label Text

"Splendid" was the way that Freer described this cobalt blue glazed vase decorated with a barely discernible incised floral design. He believed it to be an ancient Chinese vessel from the Han dynasty. The first director of the Freer Gallery of Art, John Lodge, was unconvinced: "Don't know what this is," he confessed in an undated note. Most recently, scholars of ceramics have speculated that this vase may have been the product of a late nineteenth-century European art pottery studio, though the gold-lacquer repair on the foot indicates that it may have passed through Japan at some point. In any event, it was the mottled, brilliant blue color-and not the historical origins of the piece-that most interested Freer. In the Peacock Room in Detroit, he displayed it to the right of La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine, surrounded by iridescent pieces of Raqqa ware.

Object Name

Vase

Dated

19th century

Medium

Stoneware with cobalt-blue salt glaze

Dimensions

HxW: 28.9 x 19.3 cm

Country

Japan or Europe

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Iteration

2

Shelf Number

49

Wall

North

Title

Vase

Object Number

F1902.35

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/F1902.35.jpg

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