Jar
1368-1500 (made)
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A large jar with rounded sides, short, straight neck and unglazed lip, standing on a massive, wedge-shaped foot with unglazed foot-ring. The saucer-shaped base is inset and thus deeply recessed, glazed, but incompletely on the inside. A firing crack runs round the inside bottom. The opaque green glaze is greyer inside and yellower outside. Carved relief decoration on the outside consists of peony flowers and foliage and a narrow petal panel above the foot.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Stoneware with carved relief decoration under celadon glaze |
| Brief description | Longquan ware. Jar, stoneware with carved relief decoration under a celadon glaze; China (Zhejiang province), Ming dynasty |
| Physical description | A large jar with rounded sides, short, straight neck and unglazed lip, standing on a massive, wedge-shaped foot with unglazed foot-ring. The saucer-shaped base is inset and thus deeply recessed, glazed, but incompletely on the inside. A firing crack runs round the inside bottom. The opaque green glaze is greyer inside and yellower outside. Carved relief decoration on the outside consists of peony flowers and foliage and a narrow petal panel above the foot. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Mrs B.Z. Seligman |
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| Bibliographic reference | Ayers, J.G. The Seligman Collection Vol. II, 1964, D191. |
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| Accession number | FE.188-1974 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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