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Lady Holding a Vase
1100s–1200s
(960-1127) - Jin dynasty (1115-1234)
Overall: 19.7 x 9.5 cm (7 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1957.56
Location: not on view
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This hollow stoneware figure of a woman has firing hole visible at the bottom.Description
The Cizhou ware kilns never produced for the imperial court, but made potted utensils needed in daily life. They also fired ceramic figurines, which are believed to have been used as toys.The maid or palace lady here holds a long-necked vase of a type that watered flowers. The figurine, perhaps made as a toy for a girl, was molded in clay and covered with a white slip and transparent glaze, over which some colors in red, green, and ocher were applied. Cizhou kiln potters were one of the first in China who applied overglaze enamel-like colors on glazed, high-fired ceramics.
- Men-chu Wang, Beijing, China. Seller's no. 58Edward Chao, Hong Kong?–1957(Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1957–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Lee, Sherman E. “Janus in Limbo.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 1 (January 1963): 3–6. Reproduced: p. 3, fig. 2 www.jstor.org
- China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 11, 2022-February 26, 2023).
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