The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Jar
1200s–1300s
(1127–1279) - Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368)
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.- ?–1986(Donald J. Wineman, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1986–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- 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.orgMowry, 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)
- Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).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).Year in Review for 1986. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987).
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