Funerary Urn Decorated with Dragons and Figures
908-999
Scroll
Funerary Urn Decorated with Dragons and Figures
908-999
Physical Qualities
Stoneware with olive-green glaze, 9 1/4 x 5 7/8 x 5 3/4 in. (23.5 x 14.9 x 14.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Anonymous Gift
Object Number
1998.410
Decorated with four applied dragons and two applied figures. Red body, dark olive green glaze. Flat foot, lower body edge everted and roughly finished with old losses. Glaze stops at fluted band applied about three inches above the foot (though several drips extend below the band, one all the way to the foot); above the band, on opposite sides of the body are two abstract applied ornaments -- a wavy line (snake?) on one side, and on the other two water birds separated by a wavy line; on the shoulder, above a plain, raised ridge, are two applied dragons with their scales defined by impressed C-stamps, both facing a figure holding a staff, and on the opposite side a figure holding a fan; above the high rim, a fluted band and two dragons raised above the top edge, separated in front and back by an abstract (frog?) motif; a hemisperical, unglazed lid (original?)
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; acquired by donor at the Qing Ping Farmers' Market in Guangzhou between 1984 and 1986.
Asian Art at The Baltimore Museum of Art, Accessions, 1960-2000, Ways to Wealth
William Watson, "Tang and Liao Ceramics," New York: Rizzoli, 1981, no. 190, p. 170.
Inscribed: None.
