Jar with Rouletted Decoration, 11th-12th century
Unknown artist, Chinaexpand_more
Cizhou ware Stoneware with white slip and brown overslip with carved decoration under clear glazeexpand_more
Gift of Ruth and Bruce Daytonexpand_more 2001.135.3
On View in Gallery 204expand_more
Over twenty decorative techniques were used at Cizhou and Cizhou-type kilns throughout north China. Probably from Paofeng in Henan province, this jar is ornamented in the scraffito manner with an olive-brown overslip carved through to a white slip with a roulette creating bands of short oblique strokes in close-packed rows all under a clear glaze.
Only a few jars decorated in this unusual manner are recorded. They can all be assigned northern origins and may have come from the same kiln. This small vessel is a testament to the decorative ingenuity of Cizhou potters who, with a palette limited mainly to brown-and-white, created an enormous variety of appealing designs.
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- Title
- Jar with Rouletted Decoration
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- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2001.135.3
- Curator Approved
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