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Vase with Floral Scrolls

900s-1000s

China, Henan province, Northern Song dynasty

(960-1127)

Glazed stoneware with incised and slip-inlaid decoration, Cizhou ware

Diameter of mouth: 12.7 cm (5 in.); Overall: 41.3 cm (16 1/4 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1948.226

Location

238 Chinese Ceramics

Description

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.

Citations
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 835 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. 255 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 255 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 336 archive.org
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 110-111, no. 115
Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 99
Giuffrida, Noelle. Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018. Reproduced: p. 164, fig. 93
Exhibition history

Cleveland Museum of Art, 1940, Chinese Ceramics

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

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

Tokyo, Tokyo National Museum: Toyo toji no sekai (The World of Oriental Ceramics), 1970

Sherman E. Lee, The Colors of Ink, cat. #51, p. 121 and 131, Asia Society, NY 1974

Yutaka Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuriesi in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 AD (Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana University Press, 1980), exhib. cat. pl. no. 13. Indianapolis Museum of Art 11/17/80-1/17/81; China House Gallery, NY 3/16/81-5/24/81; Cleveland Museum of Art 8/5/81-9/6/81

The World of Ceramics - Masterpieces from The Cleveland Museum of Art. CMA 6/30/82-9/5/92. Catalogue edited by Jennifer Neils, essay by Sherman E. Lee (CMA, 1982) no. 115

Tokyo, Japan Tobu Museum of Art (3/6/99 - 4/13/99); Osaka, Japan Museum of Oriental Ceramics (4/25/99 - 6/13/99); Yamaguchi, Japan Hagi Uragami Museum (6/20/99 - 8/15/99) "Song Porcelain (Soji)" p. 135, cat. no. 96.

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

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

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).

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).

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

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).

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