Footed Bowl
900-701
Scroll
Footed Bowl
900-701
Physical Qualities
Stoneware with greenish-brown glaze, 2 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (6.4 × 16.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number
1997.278
Small dish with vertical, slightly everted rim with a rounded top edge; two plain, incised lines on upper shoulder; two rows of four diagonal pinpricks rouletted with one set positioned between the lines and the other below them; shoulder also decorated with three raised, applied double-spirals, and three vertical ridged flanges (four points on each, graduated in size, small to large, top to bottom); from shoulder, body tapered sharply; thick heavy foot flares outward; concave foot cavity. Rosy-buff clay with black specks; glaze gray green to deep olive green, nearly black where thick.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1997; Christian Boehm, London
Trésors d'Art Chinois, Petit Palais, Paris, May-Sept. 1973, no. 99.
Clarence F. Shangraw, Origins of Chinese Ceramics, China House Gallery, Oct. 25, 1978- Jan. 28, 1979, p. 46, no. 41 & 42, pp. 96-97.
Li Zi Yan and Chan Liang Zhu, A Collection of Ancient Chinese Porcelain Treasures, Hong Kong: Overseas Archaeological Exhibition Corporation and The Woods Publishing Company, 1988, nos. 1-5.
Clarence F. Shangraw, Origins of Chinese Ceramics, China House Gallery, Oct. 25, 1978- Jan. 28, 1979, p. 46, no. 41 & 42, pp. 96-97.
Li Zi Yan and Chan Liang Zhu, A Collection of Ancient Chinese Porcelain Treasures, Hong Kong: Overseas Archaeological Exhibition Corporation and The Woods Publishing Company, 1988, nos. 1-5.
Inscribed: None
