Greenware jar with four animal masks

Details

• Title

  Greenware jar with four animal masks

• Associated place

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

• Date

  Western Jin Dynasty (AD 265 - 316)

• Material and technique

  stoneware, with impressed and applied decoration under a green glaze; glazed rim; unglazed base

• Material index

  processed material › ceramic › pottery › stoneware

• Technique index

  marked › impressed;

  formed › modelled;

  glazed

• Object type

  container › vessel › jar

• Dimensions

  14.5 cm (height)
  15.5 cm (diameter)
  at base 10 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1956.3922

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