Jar
Gallery Location
Not on View
Medium
Wheel-thrown stoneware with glaze
Geography
China
Date
1115-1368 AD
Period
Jin-Yuan Dynasty
Dimensions
35.5 x 38.2 cm
Object number
923.24.85
Credit Line
The George Crofts Collection
Cataloguer
Patricia Proctor
ROM Staff 1971-2015
Collection
Department
Art & Culture: China
Description
Ovoid with wide mouth ringed by low squared collar neck and swelling belly tapering below to low spreading foot broadly bevelled to wide footrim with shallow flat base. Buff stoneware with lustrous black glaze on interior and on exterior sides stopping at bevel to footrim - glaze suffused with rust in small areas and along cut lines of decoration; mouthrim, footrim and base unglazed. Cut-glaze decoration with incised detail and cut-away ground: two bands of leaf scroll separated and bordered above and below by double encircling lines - bands similar but in mirror image of each other.
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