Cizhou type 'peony' jar

Details

• Title

  Cizhou type 'peony' jar

• Associated place

  Asia › China › Cizhou kiln-sites (place of creation)

• Date

  1070 - 1120
  Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279)

• Material and technique

  stoneware, with applied decoration, moulded and luted to the jar with slip, and covered with white slip; unglazed base; glazed rim

• Material index

  processed material › ceramic › pottery › stoneware

• Technique index

  formed › moulded;

  luted;

  slipped

• Object type

  container › vessel › jar

• Dimensions

  13 cm (height)
  16 cm (diameter)
  at foot 8.5 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by Dr A. B. Emden, in recognition of the Keepership of P. C. Swann, 1966.

• Museum location

  Second floor | Gallery 38 | China from AD 800

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1966.162

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