Ewer, 10th-11th century
Unknown artist, Chinaexpand_more
Yaozhou ware Stoneware with carved décor under celadon glazeexpand_more
Gift of Ruth and Bruce Daytonexpand_more 98.126
On View in Gallery 204expand_more
Recent excavations confirm that this type of deeply carved stoneware with celadon glaze was made at the Yaozhou kilns in Shanxi province. Freely and boldly carved around the sides with a large peony flower in full bloom, the globular vessel has been covered with a thin, pale green celadon, characteristic of this rare group of tenth and early eleventh century ceramics. The ewer would have originally had a lid that capped its tall, cylindrical neck. Hard, grayish-bodied stonewares, commonly called northern celadon, are usually decorated with incised, moulded or carved designs under a fairly homogenous family of translucent green-olive green glazes. Standing near the beginning of the Northern Song continuum (960-1127), this ewer displays the thin pale-green glaze of that era.
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- Title
- Ewer
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 98.126
- Curator Approved
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