Vase

Freer described this tall flower-vase, which he purchased in 1906 from the sale of a contemporary English ceramics collector, as "very fine." He believed it had been produced during the Ming dynasty; subsequent scholars, however, have dated it to the Qing dynasty. It is a striking brilliant red-brown and black, finely speckled with a metallic dust, making its surface slightly iridescent. In the Peacock Room in Detroit, it was placed on a high shelf to the left of La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine, close to a number of similarly dark, monochromatic vessels from China and Japan.