Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1368-1450 (circa)
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed, incised, slipped, painted,
Subjects:bird scholar
Dimensions:Diameter: 29.50 centimetres Height: 34.50 centimetres
Description:
Cizhou-type jar with brown and cream slip painted decoration and incised designs beneath a transparent glaze. This jar has a wide mouth, short neck, broad shoulders tapering to a narrow waist and stepped foot. The base is unglazed and recessed within an outer foot ring. It is painted predominantly in iron brown with some cream details and incised throughout. The main register is divided into three lozenge-shaped cartouches: one frames a flower, one a windswept figure, possibly the scholar Wang Xizhi (see BM Franks.1586), staring at a goose, and the other shows the same figure looking at the goose as it dives for food. Above and below around the jar are narrow bands with individual scrolling motifs. Overlapping lappets are incised below around the foot, and around the shoulders a flower scroll with large blooms. The base is inscribed apocryphally in ink: ‘Da Song nian’ [Made in the Song dynasty].
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A cream Cizhou-type brown-painted jar with a similar arrangement of designs was excavated from a Yuan period tomb at Yuncheng in Shandong province. However, the present jar has a more exaggerated form. In addition, the figures resemble windswept depictions of figures in underglaze blue on porcelain of the Interregnum period. A similar jar with minor variations to the decorative borders is in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. A Cizhou-type jar of the same form, showing the same border around the foot, shoulder and neck, also with designs arranged in similar cartouches but painted in colours, is in the National Museum of Tokyo.
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed, incised, slipped, painted,
Subjects:bird scholar
Dimensions:Diameter: 29.50 centimetres Height: 34.50 centimetres
Description:
Cizhou-type jar with brown and cream slip painted decoration and incised designs beneath a transparent glaze. This jar has a wide mouth, short neck, broad shoulders tapering to a narrow waist and stepped foot. The base is unglazed and recessed within an outer foot ring. It is painted predominantly in iron brown with some cream details and incised throughout. The main register is divided into three lozenge-shaped cartouches: one frames a flower, one a windswept figure, possibly the scholar Wang Xizhi (see BM Franks.1586), staring at a goose, and the other shows the same figure looking at the goose as it dives for food. Above and below around the jar are narrow bands with individual scrolling motifs. Overlapping lappets are incised below around the foot, and around the shoulders a flower scroll with large blooms. The base is inscribed apocryphally in ink: ‘Da Song nian’ [Made in the Song dynasty].
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A cream Cizhou-type brown-painted jar with a similar arrangement of designs was excavated from a Yuan period tomb at Yuncheng in Shandong province. However, the present jar has a more exaggerated form. In addition, the figures resemble windswept depictions of figures in underglaze blue on porcelain of the Interregnum period. A similar jar with minor variations to the decorative borders is in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. A Cizhou-type jar of the same form, showing the same border around the foot, shoulder and neck, also with designs arranged in similar cartouches but painted in colours, is in the National Museum of Tokyo.
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