Water Pot in the Form of a Bamboo Shoot
1734
Physical Qualities
'Slippery stone' (huashi) porcelain with white glaze, 2 1/8 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (5.4 x 11.4 x 5.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Lawrason Riggs of J
Object Number
1945.59.33
A small young dragon (qilong) is perched on the top of the bamboo shoot.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1945; Lawrason Riggs of J, Baltimore; from his uncle, General Lawrason Riggs, Baltimore (1861-1940)
Frances Klapthor, Chinese Ceramics, Baltimore: BMA, 1993, no. 109, p. 57.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.
