Title

Cizhou-type sgraffito carved brown glazed meiping vase, Jin dynasty, China, late 12th-13th century. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Cizhou-type sgraffito carved brown glazed meiping vase, Jin dynasty, China, late 12th-13th century. A tall Cizhou-type meiping vase with a narrow base and conical mouth. The body is carved in sgraffito technique with three horizontal bands - the top broad, horizontal band has three large lotus blooms and foliage framed by carved double lines above and below the band. Next, a narrow band of incised classic scroll similarly bordered, the remaining broad band of erect overlapping lotus petals between double incised borders. The whole vase is covered with a thick dark brown glaze carved through the white slip to the putty-coloured body, which is scraped to form the background.
Bath (England), The Museum of East Asian Art

Date

1150

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B71_441

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

17,9Mb (617,1Kb) / 7,4in x 9,4in / 2213 x 2830 (300dpi)

Keywords

nature black flower flowers plant country pattern China Chinese color colour brown decoration carved location century floral pottery artefact dynasty lotus vase artifact glazed Patterned stoneware Thirteenth Century 13th century Museum of East Asian Art 12th century Jin dynasty sgraffito object Unknown ceramic ceramic object