Cizhou bowl with painted decoration
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Cizhou bowl with painted decoration
Dynasty
Yuan Dynasty
(Chinese, 1271 - 1368)
DateLate 13th century
Dimensions5 3/4 × 5 in. (14.6 × 12.7 cm)
MediumStoneware
ClassificationCeramics
Credit LineGift of the Popplestone Family in honor of Sandra Knudsen
Object number
2013.1
Not on View
DescriptionA Chinese bowl, known as Cizhou ware, whose rounded body is covered with a white slip and decorated on the exterior with wave-like dark brown strokes painted in a wide band around the vessel, the foot rime showing the pale gray stoneware body.
Published Referencescf. The Cizhou Kiln Site at Guantai, Beijing, Wen wu chu ban she, 1997
cf. Unearthed Treasures of China from the Collection of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Beijing University, Tokyo, 1995.
Tang Dynasty (618-907)
Tang Dynasty (618-907)
Tang Dynasty (618-907)
Song Dynasty (960-1279)
about 1820
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