Title

Jizhou stoneware bowl with skeleton leaf design, Southern Song dynasty, China, 12th century. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Jizhou stoneware bowl with skeleton leaf design, Southern Song dynasty, China, 12th century. A Jizhou tea bowl with slightly everted rim covered inside and out with a matt brownish black iron oxide glaze with a large yellowish brown skeleton leaf on the interior. The skeleton leaf was considered symbolic of the transience of life itself which in passing leaves memories as a shadow of its former existence.
Bath (England), The Museum of East Asian Art

Date

1127

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B71_425

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

18,0Mb (515,6Kb) / 9,5in x 7,4in / 2836 x 2218 (300dpi)

Keywords

nature leaves black bowl plant country leaf China Chinese color colour tea location century pottery artefact dynasty artifact glazed stoneware Museum of East Asian Art 12th century Jizhou ware Southern Song dynasty tea bowl object Unknown ceramic ceramic object