The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 24, 2024
Leather Bag-Shaped Flask with Cover
916–1125
(916-1125)
Overall: 23.5 x 17.5 x 13.8 cm (9 1/4 x 6 7/8 x 5 7/16 in.)
Gift of Donna and James Reid 2012.448.2
Location: 239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork
Description
Flasks like these derive their shapes from leather bags; even the edges are finely rouletted to resemble the seams of sewn leather. These were used by the nomadic Khitan people who established the Liao kingdom in Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, and North China. Such wares represented the Liao adoption of the Tang Chinese ceramic tradition, and yet they expressed ethnic identity and new innovations resulted from the cultural borrowing.- ?-2006(Uragami Sokyu-do Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to Donna and James Reid)2006-2012Donna [b. 1931] and James Reid [1926-2020], Cleveland Heights, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art2012-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Uragami, Mitsuru 浦上満. Ryō no tōji [遼の陶磁 = Liao Ceramics]. Tōkyō: Uragami Sōkyūdō, 2005. pp. 8–9“Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 2011-2012.” Archives of Asian Art, vol. 63, no. 2, 2013, pp. 215–276. Reproduced: fig. 16, p. 227 www.jstor.org
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