Public Domain

Jar

701

Scroll

Jar

701

Physical Qualities Earthenware with blue, amber, and transparent lead glazes over white slip, 5 1/2 × 7 in. (14 × 17.8 cm.)

Credit Line Julius Levy Memorial Fund

Object Number 1939.247

The jar is of globular form with high rounded shoulders which contract to the slightly flaring foot. The rounded lip is everted; and the neck, low and straight. The flat base is slightly concave. The jar is covered with a dark, uneven blue glaze with a single wide, light greenish vertical stripe down one side of the exterior and down the opposite side of the interior of the lip and neck; the interior is covered with a pale amber glaze. The glaze is finely crackled. There are 3 spur marks around the lip and on the bottom.

The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1939; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Whitridge Collection, Sale #142, Nov. 16-18, 1939; William H. Whitridge, Baltimore

'The Whitridge Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain,' The Baltimore Museum of Art, 6/1-10/15/1930.
Collection installation, "Asia. Exchange across Land & Sea," Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2023-

'The Whitridge Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain,' Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art,1930, no. 238, ill.

Whitridge Collection, NY: Parke-Bernet, 1939, no.