Greenware jar with floral decoration and modern lid

Details

• Title

  Greenware jar with floral decoration and modern lid

• Associated place

  Asia › China › Shaanxi province › Yaozhou kilns (place of creation)

• Date

  Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279)

• Material and technique

  stoneware, with incised, carved, and combed decoration under a green glaze; unglazed base; unglazed rim modern wooden lid, with carved decoration

• Material index

  processed material › ceramic › pottery › stoneware;

  organic › vegetal › wood

• Technique index

  marked › incised;

  carved;

  glazed

• Object type

  miscellaneous equipment › lid;

  container › vessel › jar

• Dimensions

  with lid 19.5 cm max. (height)
  without lid 16 cm (height)
  13.5 cm (diameter)
  at base 7.1 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  2

• Credit line

  Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.

• Museum location

  Second floor | Gallery 38 | China from AD 800

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1956.1253

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