Lingwu kilns and Datong kilns
Cizhou-Type Bottle with Cut-glaze Lotus Flower-and-Leaf Design
1200-1299
Scroll
- Kiln: Lingwu kilns
- Kiln: Datong kilns
Cizhou-Type Bottle with Cut-glaze Lotus Flower-and-Leaf Design
1200-1299
Physical Qualities
Stoneware with brown glaze, 9 1/2 H x 8 3/4 Diam. in. (24.1 x 22.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Howard C. Hollis, and Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1990.156
Chinese potters also created patterns in glaze by incising lines into an unglazed
stoneware body or by entirely cutting it away. Here, carved lines distinguish
lotus flowers and leaves from the background. A stopper, probably made of
wood wrapped in cloth, would have been used to seal a bottle such as this one.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1990; Eskenazi Ltd., London; Rudolph Schaeffer, San Francisco; Warren E. Cox, New York; Samuel T. Peters, New York
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Warren E. Cox, "The Book of Pottery and Porcelain," NY: Lothrop Lee and Shepard Co., Crown Publishers, 1944, vol. 1, pp. 174-180, ill. pl 52, p. 177.
"In the Spotlight: Recent Accession," "BMA Today," September 1991.
Frances Klapthor, Chinese Ceramics, Baltimore: BMA, 1993, no. 24, p. 34, ill. p. 25 and cover.
Glenn McNatt, "Where local lilies and lotuses live," "The Sun," Arts Section, March 29, 1998.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.
"Ningxia Lingwu yao fa ne bao gao," "Zhonggue tian ye kao gu bao gao ji," "Kao gu xue zhuan kan," no. 47.
Robert D. Mowry, "Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400," Cambridge: Wm. Hays Fogg Art Museum, 1996, pp. 160-163 and 198-201.
Jiena Huo, "Fire and Earth Early Chinese Ceramics (3500 B.C.-1400 A.D.)," Cologne: Museum of East Asian Art, 2008, no. 175.
Li Zhiyan, Virginia L. Bower, and He Li (eds.), "Chinese Ceramics From the Paleolithic Period through the Qing Dynasty," New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010, pp. 319-323.
"Cizhou Wares," http://www.koh-antique.com/cizhou/cizhouware.html
"Study of Porcelain from the Lingwu Kiln of the Xixia Dynasty in Ningxia, China" [http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-ZGTC201011022.htm] for Chinese language article; object file contains English language citations and co-citations.
Robert D. Mowry, "Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400," Cambridge: Wm. Hays Fogg Art Museum, 1996, pp. 160-163 and 198-201.
Jiena Huo, "Fire and Earth Early Chinese Ceramics (3500 B.C.-1400 A.D.)," Cologne: Museum of East Asian Art, 2008, no. 175.
Li Zhiyan, Virginia L. Bower, and He Li (eds.), "Chinese Ceramics From the Paleolithic Period through the Qing Dynasty," New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010, pp. 319-323.
"Cizhou Wares," http://www.koh-antique.com/cizhou/cizhouware.html
"Study of Porcelain from the Lingwu Kiln of the Xixia Dynasty in Ningxia, China" [http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-ZGTC201011022.htm] for Chinese language article; object file contains English language citations and co-citations.
Markings: On base: green ink on cloth (linen?) tape, "Rudolph Schaefer/Sung Tzu Chou Coll"; old plastic label, "VXX Sung/WARREN E COX/Tz'uchou/Collection/New York/P120"; written on round label with brown lion holding a 5-petaled flower "JTV" (indistinct); written in blue ink "C1152" on printed on round label "ESKENAZI LONDON"
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