- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Pear-shaped bottle.
Clay: buff stoneware.
Glaze: iron-black glaze, deep brown flecked with ochre. Foot unglazed, but splotches of glaze on base, fingerprints in glaze around lower edge of bottle.
Decoration: three highly abstracted birds, flying to the left, painted in iron pigment over the glaze, using a thick, floppy brush. The pigment appears bluish-black and matte.
Mark: Cyclical date equivalent to 1341 (founding year of Zhizheng era). Illegible mark incised on the base using a blunt tool.
- Inscription(s)
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(Louise Cort, 6 December 1991) Inscribed in iron painted over the glaze with a date equivalent to 1341, at the very end of the Yuan dynasty.
- Marking(s)
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Cyclical date equivalent to 1341 (founding year of Zhizheng era). Illegible mark incised on the base using a blunt tool.
- Published References
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- Qin Dashu. Guantai cizhou yaozi. vol. XXVII Beijing, Spring 2011. p. 155, fig. 5.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- SI Usage Statement
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