Jar with design of phoenix and dragon

Freer acquired this fourteenth-century Yuan dynasty jar with a phoenix and dragon design from Yamanaka and Company in New York. In the Peacock Room in Detroit he displayed it on one of the tall shelves surrounding the gilded peacock shutters. His arrangement of pots on this side of the room is the least formally coherent; many of the selections and juxtapositions seem to have been made according to size and shape—simply filling the space rather than, as elsewhere, orchestrating harmonious relationships.