Jar with Carved Floral Design
999-1899
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Jar with Carved Floral Design
999-1899
Physical Qualities
Pink earthenware with amber lead glaze over slip, 20.2 H x approx. 18.4 Diam. cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Terri and Erwin Harris, Baltimore
Object Number
1991.216
The jar has a low, vertical neck, a high and rounded shoulder, and body which tapers slightly to the flat foot. It is decorated with 4 bands of carved decoration, each separated by pairs of plain lines, in the following order: 4-petaled florettes, above half-crysanthemums, above lotus and other flowers, above vertical petals.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1990; Terri and Erwin Harris, Baltimore
William Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, NY: Rizzoli, 1984, pp. 108-113 (compare shape of no. 10, p. 21 and carved decoration of no. 272, p. 228, and no. 231, p. 231).
Orientations Magazine, September 1991, advertisement for J. J. Lally & Co., p. 15 (compare example of 6th century upright lotus leaves, and florettes; see also globular celadon-glazed jar of the same period in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
Orientations Magazine, September 1991, advertisement for J. J. Lally & Co., p. 15 (compare example of 6th century upright lotus leaves, and florettes; see also globular celadon-glazed jar of the same period in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
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