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Small Jar

1824-1834

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Small Jar

1824-1834

Physical Qualities Porcelain with copper red transmutation glaze, 12.7 cm. H
Credit Line Gift of Dr. and Mrs. W. Lehman Guyton
Object Number 2005.101
Small elongated ovoid jar with glaze which varies from bluish to deep rose; with short, unglazed tapered neck, glazed interior, and brown-washed bottom. Heavy for its size; mouth rim and foot rim ground.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2003; Dr. William L. Guyton, Cockeysville, Maryland
Rose Kerr, "Chinese Ceramics Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911," London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1986, pp. 74-79 [for a good discussion of copper red glazes].

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