Bowl
1000-1099
Physical Qualities
Stoneware with white glaze over white slip, 2 5/8 H x 3 1/16 Diam. in. (6.6 x 7.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Ballentine, Baltimore
Object Number
1997.271
Rounded side, raised at about a 45-degree angle; square-cut foot, slightly everted. Opaque, milky white glaze stops above the foot to reveal the buff clay which contains numerous impurities. Five spur marks (3 wedge-shaped, 2 rectangular) at center of interior.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1997; Dr. Robert Ballentine, Baltimore (acquired most of his Chinese ceramics in New York in the early 1940s)
Collection installation, "Asia. Artistic Innovation & Exchange", Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2023-
On View at the BMA
