Greenware jar with ribbed decoration

Details

• Title

  Greenware jar with ribbed decoration

• Associated place

  Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Yue kiln-sites (place of creation)

• Date

  4th - 3rd century BC (400 - 201 BC)
  Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Warring States Period (475 - 221 BC)

• Material and technique

  stoneware, with incised and impressed decoration under a green glaze; glazed rim

• Object type

  container › vessel › jar

• Dimensions

  16.2 cm (height)
  23 cm (diameter)
  at base 12.7 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.

• Museum location

  Ground floor | Gallery 10 | China to AD 800

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1956.520

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