Cizhou kilns
Small Dish with Aquatic Motif
1200
Physical Qualities
Stoneware with white slip and overglaze red, green, and yellow enamel decoration, 1 5/8 × 6 3/4 in. (4.1 × 17.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number
1997.29
Decorated with a duck, a lotus and a fish, the small bowl has a low, knife-trimmed foot, widely spreading side, and straight nearly vertical rim. It is covered with a thick white slip and transparent glaze, and painted in a free and gestural manner with red, green and yellow overglaze enamels. The interior of the small bowl is decorated with a duck, above a fish, above a folded lotus leaf, outlined in red and reserved in white on a green ground, within a narrow red ring; surrounded a thin red line, then a wider red band decorated with seven groups of three yellow dots, and another thin red line about an inch from the rim.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1997; J.J. Lally & Co., New York
Collection installation, "Asia. Artistic Innovation & Exchange", Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2023-
Frances Klapthor, 'In the Spotlight,' BMA Today, December-January, 1997-98, ill.
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