Jar, 12th-13th century
Unknown artist, Chinaexpand_more
Ganzhou ware Stoneware with combed and appliqué decoration and brown glazeexpand_more
Gift of Ruth and Bruce Daytonexpand_more 2000.209.4
On View in Gallery 204expand_more
Distinctly formed jars, consisting of footless globular containers with short, vertical necks decorated with bosses and a thick, rolled-lip rim are associated with the Qili kilns at Kanzhou in Jiangxi province. While these unique jars vary in their size, their use of "willow-basket" marking, and glazed versus unglazed exteriors all have brown-glazed interiors. Because they range in size from small to large, these jars are often called "rice measures" in English, but their exact function remains unknown. Basket-weave designs were evident by the eleventh century in both porcelain and stoneware. The best known willow-basket jars, however, are the brown-glazed variety like this datable to the late Song and Yuan dynasties (13th-14th century).
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