Shaoxing or Ningbo kilns
Storage Vessel with Comb-Impressed Decoration
100
Physical Qualities
Stoneware with remnants of grayish-green glaze, 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number
1992.23
A low, wide band tapered at the edge encircles the mouth. The comb-impressed pattern of begins about an inch below the mouth rim and continues to the foot. The clobbered remnants of glaze are most apparent on the smooth clay above the comb-impressed pattern. There are 11 rows of pattern around the body which has full and rounded shoulders which taper sharply to the foot. There is no foot rim; the underside is slightly concave.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1992; Christie's, New York; Anthony R. Derham, New York
Christie's, New York, Sale 7366, 11/27/1991, lot 254, ill.
Frances Klapthor, Chinese Ceramics, Baltimore: BMA, 1993, no. 5, p. 16, ill. p. 17.
Inscribed: none
