Greenware meiping, or plum blossom, vase with peony scroll decoration

Details

• Title

  Greenware meiping, or plum blossom, vase with peony scroll decoration

• Associated place

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

• Date

  1050 - 1120
  Northern Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1127)

• Material and technique

  stoneware, with incised and combed decoration under a green glaze; unglazed base; glazed rim

• Material index

  processed material › ceramic › pottery › stoneware

• Technique index

  marked › incised;

  glazed

• Object type

  container › vessel › vase › meiping

• Dimensions

  27 cm (height)
  15.5 cm (diameter)
  at base 7.7 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.

• Museum location

  Second floor | Gallery 38 | China from AD 800

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1956.1251

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