Jar
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
Department
Art & Culture: China
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.
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