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Like the <em>Teabowl with Tortoiseshell Glaze </em>(<a href="https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.177">CMA 2020.177</a>), this jar was made in the Jizhou kilns of southeast China. Producing a variety of innovative dark glaze types, the potter here created a dynamic abstract pattern of waves in the form of light brown strokes brushed over a dark brown glaze.
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153142
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Jar
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153142
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Jar
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Like the <em>Teabowl with Tortoiseshell Glaze </em>(<a href="https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.177">CMA 2020.177</a>), this jar was made in the Jizhou kilns of southeast China. Producing a variety of innovative dark glaze types, the potter here created a dynamic abstract pattern of waves in the form of light brown strokes brushed over a dark brown glaze.
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1200s–1300s
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en
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Q79938594
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Ceramic
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Diameter: 13.4 cm (5 1/4 in.); Overall: 11.3 cm (4 7/16 in.)
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China, Jiangxi province, Jizhou kilns, Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279) - Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368)
accession
1986.14
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Glazed stoneware with resist and slip-painted decoration, Jizhou ware
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Jar, 1200s–1300s. China, Jiangxi province, Jizhou kilns, Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279) - Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368). Glazed stoneware with resist and slip-painted decoration, Jizhou ware; diameter: 13.4 cm (5 1/4 in.); overall: 11.3 cm (4 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1986.14
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China - Song Dynasty
inscriptions
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jen ch'en nien san yüeh shih jih mai
didYouKnow
To create leaf imprints in Jizhou ware, artisans dipped real leaves in glaze and placed them on vessels, where the leaves would then burn away while firing in the kiln.
citations
citation
Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1986.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 74, no. 2 (February 1987): 38–79.
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Mentioned: p. 77, no. 219
citation
Mowry, Robert D., Eugene Farrell, and Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere. <em>Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400</em>. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1996.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 236, plate 93 and p. 237, plate 93 (detail)
citation
Von Spee, Clarissa. "Chinese Ceramics and Works on Paper." In <em>The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, </em>edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 194–229. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 204, fig. 33
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John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 07:54:39.516000
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153142
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Chinese Art
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China - Song Dynasty
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Glazed stoneware with resist and slip-painted decoration, Jizhou ware
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