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Gallery Location
Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of China
Medium Wheel-thrown stoneware with glaze
Geography
China
Date 2nd half of 11th-early 12th century AD
Period Northern Song-Jin Dynasty
Dimensions 13.8 x 13.3 cm
Object number 983.231.65
Credit Line Gift of Dr. Herman H. Levy
Cataloguer Patricia Proctor ROM Staff 1971-2015
Collection
Description
Wide-mouthed; sides rounded up from low straight foot with flat base and then rising vertically to slightly thickened mouthrim - vertical rise interrupted above mid-point by encircling depression with medial ridge; interior rounded to small flat bottom.  Light buff stoneware with thick black glaze patterned with silvery 'oil-spots' stopping above foot on exterior and below mouthrim on interior; thinner undercoat of glaze visible on interior - undercoat appears yellow-brown where thin, and black with faint oil-spotting where thicker in interior bottom.  Four wedge-shaped support scars in interior bottom.
Jar
Jar - 983.231.65_1
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