Title

Cizhou type sgraffito yuhuchun vase, early Yuan dynasty, China, late 13th-early 14th century. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Cizhou type sgraffito Yuhuchun vase with two phoenixes, early Yuan dynasty, China, late 13th-early 14th century. A Cizhou stoneware pear-shaped vase with bulbous body, long neck and everted lip of typical yuhuchun shape. The vase is decorated in the central horizontal section with two phoenixes among clouds, one has a five-streamer ribboned tail and the other has a two-streamer clobbered classic scroll tail. The top section has a stylised lotus petal pattern border and the bottom section a clobbered classic scroll border all done in sgraffito technique, in which the vase is carved through the white slip to the buff body and then covered by a transparent glaze. The foot and base are unglazed, showing the buff body. The depiction of phoenixes with differing tails as here seems a common feature in the Yuan period.
Bath (England), The Museum of East Asian Art

Date

1271

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B71_482

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

17,9Mb (554,9Kb) / 7,4in x 9,4in / 2213 x 2830 (300dpi)

Keywords

bird birds country pattern China Chinese color colour brown decoration location century pottery artefact dynasty Phoenix vase mythology artifact glazed Patterned stoneware mythical creature 14th century Fourteenth Century Thirteenth Century 13th century Museum of East Asian Art Cizhou ware mythical beast sgraffito Yuan dynasty yuhuchun object Unknown ceramic ceramic object