Interpretation
The decoration of this large jar features fan-shaped leaf patterns and swirling lines deftly painted with black iron pigment over a thin layer of white clay. After the artist applied the painted decoration, the jar was covered with a transparent glaze. This type of stoneware is typical of Cizhou ware ceramics produced in northern China and imitates more elaborately carved or molded types of all-white vessels.
Information
- Title
- Jar
- Object Number
- 1998-305
- Medium
- Cizhou ware with underglaze painted decoration
- Dimensions
- h. 31.7 cm., diam. 27.0 cm. (12 1/2 x 10 5/8 in.)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951
- Culture
- Chinese
- Period
- Yuan dynasty
- Place made
- Asia, China
- Materials
–1998 John B. Elliott (Princeton, NJ), by bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1998.
- "The checklist of the John B. Elliott Bequest," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 61 (2002): p. 49-99., p. 75
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 13 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013)
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