Cizhou ware characteristically shows the use of slip coating, bold designs, and color contrasts to achieve stunning visual effects. This extremely rare and handsome vase is distinguished by its remarkable rhythmic execution of the floral designs achieved by the use of incised and slip-inlaid decoration. With firing, the slip coating and inlaid decoration assumed a soft ivory color whereas the exposed clay body displayed a warm cinnamon brown.

Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 28-April 7, 1940).

Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics

Masterpieces of Far Eastern Ceramics. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (October 9-November 29, 1970).

Masterpieces of Far Eastern Ceramics

The Colors of Ink. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).

The Colors of Ink

Freedom of Clay and Brush: Tz'u Chou Type Wares. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (organizer) (November 17, 1980-January 18, 1981); China House Gallery, New York City, NY (March 16-May 24, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 5-September 6, 1981).

Freedom of Clay and Brush: Tz'u Chou Type Wares

The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-August 22, 1982).

The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art

Chinese Ceramics. Tokyo National Museum (organizer) (October 12-November 23, 1994).

Chinese Ceramics

Song Porcelain. Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (March 6-April 13, 1999); Museum of Oriental Ceramics Osaka, Japan (April 25-June 13, 1999); Hagi Uragami Museum, Yamaguchi (June 20-August 15, 1999).

Song Porcelain

Chinese Ceramics. Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA (March 14-April 27, 1952). p. 90, fig. 228

Selected Sung Ceramics. The Japan Ceramic Society, Tokyo, Japan (April 26-May 2, 1955).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 2003-March 15, 2004).

A stoneware dish-mouthed vase features a slender neck rising from an ovoid body. Cream-colored slip covers the vessel, with a tan-pigmented central section revealing intricate white sgraffito designs. Spiraling peony scrolls wrap around the midsection, while simplified foliate patterns adorn the shoulder and lower bands. The vessel's flared rim and foot remain smooth and pale. Fine, incised lines define the swirling floral motifs, which contrast sharply against the earth-toned, matte background.

(Charles D. Kelekian [1900–1982], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

Vase with Floral Scrolls

China, Henan province, Northern Song dynasty

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