Tomb jar
Label Text
This slender tomb jar dating to the Southern Song dynasty in the thirteenth century is one of a dozen similar funeral wares purchased by Freer from the New York gallery of Yamanaka and Company. In the Peacock Room in Detroit, it was displayed as a pair with another Southern Song tomb jar with a similar crackled, gray-green celadon glaze. The two vessels were symmetrically arranged on the top shelves of what is now the south wall, flanking Whistler's mural of fighting peacocks.
Object Name
Tomb jar
Ware
Longquan-type ware
Dated
13th century
Period
Southern Song dynasty
Medium
Stoneware with celadon glaze
Dimensions
HxW: 40.1 x 14.8 cm
Country
China
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Iteration
2
Shelf Number
90
Wall
South
Title
Tomb jar
Object Number
F1903.233
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/F1903.233.jpg
Collection
Citation
"Tomb jar," in The Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Accession No. F1903.233, Item #3197, https://peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3197 (accessed November 21, 2024).
