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Jar with Dragon

1271–1368

China, Yuan dynasty

(1271-1368)
Glazed buff stoneware with underglaze slip application, Cizhou ware
Overall: 28 cm (11 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1948.215
Location: Not on view
  • ?–1948
    (Dikran G. Kelekian [1867–1951], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1948–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 398, fig. 524
    Magazine of Art, v. 33 pt.1 (April 1940).
    Hollis, Howard. "More Chinese Stoneware of the Yüan Dynasty." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 36, no. 8 (October 1949): 159–160. Mentioned: p. 160; Reproduced: p. 163 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 857 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 260 archive.org
    Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968. cat. no. 45
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 260 archive.org
    Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974. cat. no. 63
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 344 archive.org
    Mino, Yutaka and Katherine R. Tsiang. Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz’u-Chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D. Indianapolis, Bloomington: Indianapolis Museum of Art; Indiana University Press, 1981. no. 2
    Tō Sugimura 杉村棟. イスラーム Isurāmu. Tōkyō: Shogakukan 小学館, 1999. p. 252, no. 197
  • 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).
    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).
    Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 2-November 24, 1968); and Asia House, New York, NY (January 16-March 2, 1969).
    Meaning of Nature in Chinese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-June 1, 1954).
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