Sandy, medium brown clay. Underglaze painted decoration in iron pigment and white slip, of primulas and birds. Translucent glaze, bluish where thick, with irregular coarse crackle; triangle of copper-tinted ash glaze, reduced to red, on one corner, volatilizing to adjacent side. Base unglazed.
[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 689, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. By at least 1917, Tonying and Company maintained business locations in Shanghai, Beijing, Paris, London, and New York, NY.
[1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1120, pg. 250, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, Voucher no. 12, January 1917.
[1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1123, p. 251, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also Voucher no. 12, January 1917.