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Cizhou bowl with combed decoration

Manufacturer Guantai kiln site (Chinese)
Place of OriginChina
DateMid 12th - early 13th century
DimensionsDiam: 4 in. (10.2 cm) (Auction house)
MediumGlazed stoneware.
ClassificationCeramics
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
2005.31
Not on View
DescriptionA small Chinese bowl, known as Cizhou ware, whose rounded body is covered with a white slip and decorated on the interior with brush-like strokes combed through the slip below a line border, all under a clear glaze that continues onto the foot, the foot rim showing the pale gray stoneware body.
Published ReferencesNew Orleans Museum of Art, Heaven and Earth Seen Within, 2000, catalog number 23Exhibition HistoryNew Orleans Museum of Art, Heaven and Earth Seen Within, 2000Comparative ReferencesSee also Guantai Cizhou Yaozhi, Beijing, 1997 See also Unearthed Treasures of China from the Collection of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Beijing University, Tokyo, 1995
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