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Song to Yuan Dynasty Pottery-Porcelains

December 10, 2014 By plcombs Leave a Comment

 The Freer-Sackler Asian Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution

Song to Yuan Dynasty Pottery-Porcelains, is now fully searchable for reference and study.

While we're all aware as collectors and dealers the Freer-Sackler has an astoundingly wide ranging collection of Asian Art, it is now fully available ONLINE.  The collection has been digitally archived with descriptions and good imagery.  Up until now, much of the collection had been on their web-site but was so badly organized it was virtually unusable. 

Today, with the improvements, you can browse the collection to your hearts content. In particular they have done a heck of a good job with their Song to Yuan Dynasty Pottery-Porcelains collection. The new site is fabulous and much better than what most museums around the world have done, we hope others will follow suit. Now you can visit and really use the site of Asian and Chinese collections for reference and study. It's loaded with images and descriptions of the over 6,000 entries covering metal-works, paintings, porcelain, pottery, and jades. All of which can be searched, filtered and enjoyed. Its all there!

The Freer-Sackler is a gem of a collection. Thanks to the generosity of many donors over the years who've made this part of the Smithsonian a true treasure of international merit.

This, this first of several posts we'll be doing on the Freer-Sackler, and is being posted as an opportunity to see some of the best examples by age and type's of art held by the institution. We encourage you to visit the Freer-Sackler gallery collection. 

Ceramics of  the Song to Yuan Period

This is (for me anyway)  one of the most interesting periods during the entire history of Chinese ceramic art.  It was a time of innovation and evolution of kiln technology, glazes, shapes as well as a huge cultural changes in taste.  It all took place in a matter of a few hundred years, at a time when changes often moved at a snail's pace.

From the Northern Song to the Yuan period many ceramics continued to be made with only slight differences in color and paste, while other new forms of striking differences came into vogue. In particular the development of massive blue and white porcelains.

With continuation of only slightly different ceramics being made with the introduction of radically different cobalt decorated porcelains it was an exciting time. So true were some pieces made later in this era dating some objects accurately became difficult. This difficulty is evidenced by numerous Freer-Sackler entrees describing  pieces as "Southern Song to Yuan" or "Jin or Yuan", "Northern Song or Jin" etc. To further illustrate this difficulty, one example in the collection is dated Song Dynasty or "Modern". 

However, there were also potter's working and experimenting with shapes and glazes bringing the craft to entirely new levels of astonishing quality.  Superb Ru wares, brilliant Celadons carved and molded, fine Dingyao, Qingbai, GE glazes etc.. all of relatively small sizes found most desirable by the scholar or literati classes as well as the residing Emperor.  Then a sudden shift began with the making massive high fired hard porcelains with elaborate decorations executed in cobalt blue imported from Persia when China fell under the control of the Mongols, for whom massive basins, jars "Guan" and chargers were made. These big blue and white examples can today be found today scattered throughout the Middle East, and southeast Asia as a result of decades of trade, mostly by ship.

Here are some of the Freer-Sackler collection's best examples from this era...more will be added as time goes by. See also our posts on Famille Verte and Langyao collections at the Smithsonian's National Gallery of Art's collection.

 

 Song to Yuan Dynasty Pottery-Porcelains

Below are dozens of examples at the Freer-Sackler Gallery, click to enlarge.

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Jun ware Stem Bowl

Jun ware Stem Bowl

Jin Dynasty Cizhou Jar and Cover

Cizhou ware jar and lid

Cizhou ware jar and lid

 

 

Northern Song or Jin Celadon

Yaozhou ware molded celadon bowl

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Song, black and white slip glazed Cizhou vase with Lilly decorations.

Song to Yuan Dynasty Pottery-Porcelains

Fine Song to Yuan Period Celadon Mallet vase

Black Glazed Song or Jin Dynasty jar

Ribbed Song or Jin Dynasty jar

Song or Jin Dynasty Stoneware Celadon Bowl

Song or Jin Dynasty Stoneware Celadon Bowl

Southern Song Guan Glaze Mallet Vase

Southern Song Guan Glaze Mallet Vase

Southern Song Guan Glaze Arrow Vase

Southern Song Guan Glaze Arrow Vase

Norther Song Lotus Petal Bowl in White Slip

Northern Song Lotus Petal Bowl with white slip glaze

Northern Song Stoneware Celdadon Vase

Northern Song Stoneware Celadon Vase

Song Dynasty Lonquan Celadon Bowl

Lonquan Celadon Bowl Song Dynasty

Northern Song Yue Ware Floral Box

Northern Song Yue Ware Floral Box

Northern Song Meiping vase

Northern Song Meiping vase, stoneware with glaze over slip decoration.

Northern Song or Jin Dynasty Yaozhou Molded Celadon

Northern Song or Jin Dynasty Yaozhou Molded Celadon Bowl

Song to Yuan Dynasty Pottery and Porcelains

Yuan Dynasty Longquan Celadon vase with reserved biscuit panels.

Yuan Dunasty Longquan Celadon vase

Yuan Dunasty Longquan Celadon Buddhist Temple vase

Yuan Dynasty Jun Ware Flowerpot

Yuan Dynasty Jun Ware Flowerpot

Yuan Dynasty Cizhou Iron Glaze and decorated bottle

Yuan Dynasty Cizhou Iron Glaze and decorated bottle

Yuan Cizhou Ware Glazed jar

Yuan Cizhou Ware Glazed jar

 

 

 

 

Yuan Dynasty Jun-ware Bowl with copper pigment

Yuan Dynasty Jun-ware Bowl with copper pigment

Yuan Dynasty Jun Ware Cup

Yuan Dynasty Jun Ware Cup

 

Northern Song Qing-bai Incised Bowl

Northern Song Qing-bai Incised Bowl

Yuan Jun-ware jar with loop handles

Yuan Jun-ware jar with loop handles and copper pigments

Yuan Jun-ware bowl

Yuan Jun-ware bowl

White Slip glazed Meiping vase Yuan Dynasty

White Slip glazed Meiping vase Yuan Dynasty

 

 

 

Song Dynasty Qingbai Bowl

Song Dynasty Qingbai Bowl

 

Jin Dynasty Jun glazed Stoneware Dish

Jin Dynasty Jun glazed Stoneware Dish

Yuan porcelain bowl

Yuan porcelain bowl

 

Yuan dynasty Blue and White basin

Yuan dynasty Blue and White basin

 Click any Image below to select and CLICK Again for enlarged version.

Jian ware hair's fur Song Bowl
Jian ware hair’s fur Song Bowl
Yuan dynasty Blue and White basin
Yuan dynasty Blue and White basin
Song dynasty Guan ware cup
Song dynasty Guan ware cup
Yaohochou ware carved celadon bowl
Yaohochou ware carved celadon bowl
Jin Dynastry celadon leaf pattern bowl
Jin Dynastry celadon leaf pattern bowl
Cizhou Bottle Jin vase
Cizhou Bottle Jin vase

Yaozhou ware Jin Dynasty Bowl
Yaozhou ware Jin Dynasty Bowl
Liao Dynasty Bowl
Liao Dynasty Bowl
Yuan Longquan kiln Celadon bowl
Yuan Longquan kiln Celadon bowl
Northern Song Longquan jar
Northern Song Longquan jar
Northern Song Cizhou Bowl
Northern Song Cizhou Bowl
Northern Song Dynasty White Slip Bottle
Of slightly ovoid elongated form with a faint crackle , slight fritting about the mouth.

Northern Song Cixhou vase
Northern Song Cixhou vase
Southern Song to Yuan Period Meiping vase
Southern Song to Yuan Period Meiping vase with black iron glaze
Yaozchou Northern Song or Jin dynasty Bowl
Yaozchou Northern Song or Jin dynasty Bowl, decorated with a celadon glaze and molded reliefs. 12th C
Jizhou Ware Bottle , Song Dynasty
Southern Song or Yuan dynasty with iron pigment, dark colorless glazes, 13 th C.
southern Song to Yuan Celadon Incense Burner
Southern Song to Yuan Celadon Incense Burner
Northern Song Ding Ware Bottle
Northern Song Ding Ware Bottle

Southern Song Guan Glaze Bowl
Green glazed Southern Song Bowl with handle.
Chinese Yuan Dynasty Cizhou jar
Chinese Yuan Dynasty Cizhou jar with iron glaze, 1279-1368
Chinese Yuan Dynasty Cizhou vase
Chinese Yuan Dynasty Cizhou vase with Iron red decoration and inscription.
Chinese Yuan period GE Glaze Bowl
Chinese Yuan period GE Glaze Bowl
Yuan to Ming Dynasty flower pot
Yuan to Ming Dynasty flower pot stand with Jun Glaze, 14th to 15th C.
Yuan Dynasty Jizhou Bowl
Jizhou ware tea bowl with tortoiseshell ash glaze and metal rim.

Jun glazed Yuan to Ming Dynasty Bulb Bowl
Jun glazed Yuan to Ming Dynasty Bulb Bowl with copper pigment and impressed WU mark
Chinese Yuan to Ming Dynasty Bowl
Yuan to Ming dynasty Stoneware bowl with Jun Glaze
Yuan to Ming dynasty Jun Glazed Bowl
Fine Yuan to Ming Dynasty bulb bowl with Jun glaze

Filed Under: Chinese Art History Research, Chinese Porcelain History Tagged With: Freer-Sackler Gallery, identifying Song Ceramics, Jin jar, Museum Exhibition, Song pottery, Southern Song Bowl, Yuan Celadon, Yuan porcelain

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