Jingdezhen kilns
Bowl Decorated with Three Incised Clouds or Waves
1000-1199
Scroll
Jingdezhen kilns
Bowl Decorated with Three Incised Clouds or Waves
1000-1199
Physical Qualities
Porcelain with transparent glaze, 2 1/4 × 6 1/2 in. (5.7 × 16.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mark S. and Dolores H. Pratt, Washington, D.C.
Object Number
2021.91
The bowl is covered with a bright, bluish, crackled transparent glaze. It has a thin, high foot that is glazed on the outside edge, but unglazed on the inside. The interior of the foot, also unglazed, shows that the bowl was glazed on a firing pad which kept the footrim from adhering to the surface on which is was fired.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2021; Mark S. Pratt, Washington, D.C. by purchase, 1987-1989; [unidentified source] Guangzhou, China
Stacey Pierson, ed. Qingbai Ware: Chinese Porcelain of the Song and Yuan Dynasties. London: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 2002, no. 28, pp. 74-75 (for similar unintend crackle), no. 34, pp. 82-83 (for similar decoration).
Bright as Silver, White as Snow: Chinese White Ceramics from Late Tang to Yuan Dynasty. Hong Kong: Yungmingtang, 1998.
Bright as Silver, White as Snow: Chinese White Ceramics from Late Tang to Yuan Dynasty. Hong Kong: Yungmingtang, 1998.
