Jar: C.622-1991

Maker(s)

Unknown

Entities

• Jar
• wide-mouthed baluster jar

Categories

• Stoneware
• Cizhou ware

Description

Wide-mouthed baluster jar. Grey stoneware, thrown and turned, covered in white slip, and painted in iron-brown/black under a dribbly, clear glaze. The jar has a wide mouth and high, swelling shoulders tapering to a nearly cylindrical lower portion, splayed foot and base recessed in two levels. The decoration is painted underglaze in dark-brown pigment, and organised in three principal horizontal bands. The central band has three small landscape scenes in lozenge-shaped panels, one with a crane, a second with a seated figure and a third with a rabbit. In the spandrels are closely painted and spiral patterns. The bands above and below the central band are decorated with large chrysanthemums with spiralling centres and corkscrew-like leaves. The foot and base are without slip and are unglazed.

Notes

History note: Purchased from Stora, Paris, November 1919, for £13.15.0d; Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust in 1991

Legal notes

Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

Ming
15th Century-16th Century
Circa 1400 - 1600