Wide Mouth Jar (guan), 10th-13th century
Unknown artist, Chinaexpand_more
Cizhou type ware Stoneware with dark brown glaze over trailed white slip ribsexpand_more
Gift of Ruth and Bruce Daytonexpand_more 2001.72.1
On View in Gallery 204expand_more
Although their specific function is unknown, brown-glazed, globular-shaped jars with wide mouths, double handles, and vertical rib décor were popular northern kiln products during Northern Song (960-1127) and Jin (1115-1234) dynasties. The distinguishing ribs are not rolled appliqué strips of clay as they seem, but rather, trailings of white kaolinic slip that were extruded onto the body of the vessel with a tool akin to a modern cake decorator. After all parts had dried, the potter applied the iron-rich glaze in two dippings. In firing, the glaze pulled away from the raised ribs causing them to appear slightly lighter in color than the thicker, darker glaze of the body.
This is one of the largest recorded examples of a brown-glazed ribbed jar. It was probably made at one of the Cizhou type kilns in Henan or Hebei province.
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- Title
- Wide Mouth Jar (guan)
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2001.72.1
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