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Jar

1200s–1300s

China, Jiangxi province, Jizhou kilns, Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279) - Yuan Dynasty

(1271–1368)

Glazed stoneware with resist and slip-painted decoration, Jizhou ware

Diameter: 13.4 cm (5 1/4 in.); Overall: 11.3 cm (4 7/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1986.14

Location

238 Chinese Ceramics

Did you know?

To create leaf imprints in Jizhou ware, artisans dipped real leaves in glaze and placed them on vessels, where the leaves would then burn away while firing in the kiln.

Description

Like the Teabowl with Tortoiseshell Glaze (CMA 2020.177), this jar was made in the Jizhou kilns of southeast China. Producing a variety of innovative dark glaze types, the potter here created a dynamic abstract pattern of waves in the form of light brown strokes brushed over a dark brown glaze.

Inscriptions

Inscription

jen ch'en nien san yüeh shih jih mai

Provenance

?–1986

(Donald J. Wineman, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1986–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1986.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 2 (February 1987): 38–79. Mentioned: p. 77, no. 219 www.jstor.org

Mowry, Robert D., Eugene Farrell, and Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere. Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1996. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 236, plate 93 and p. 237, plate 93 (detail)

Exhibition history

Year in Review for 1986. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987).

Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400. Harvard Art Museums (organizer) (December 23, 1995-March 10, 1996); China Institute Gallery (April 20-July 13, 1996); Elvehjem Museum of Art (November 9, 1996-January 19, 1997).

Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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