Cizhou-Type Bottle with Cut-glaze Lotus Flower-and-Leaf Design

1200-1299

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Lingwu kilns and Datong kilns

Kiln: Lingwu kilns
Kiln: Datong kilns

Cizhou-Type Bottle with Cut-glaze Lotus Flower-and-Leaf Design

1200-1299

Physical Qualities Stoneware with brown glaze, 9 1/2 H x 8 3/4 Diam. in. (24.1 x 22.3 cm.)

Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Howard C. Hollis, and Bequest of Saidie A. May

Object Number 1990.156

Chinese potters also created patterns in glaze by incising lines into an unglazed stoneware body or by entirely cutting it away. Here, carved lines distinguish lotus flowers and leaves from the background. A stopper, probably made of wood wrapped in cloth, would have been used to seal a bottle such as this one.

The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1990; Eskenazi Ltd., London; Rudolph Schaeffer, San Francisco; Warren E. Cox, New York; Samuel T. Peters, New York

"Selections from the Rudolph Schaeffer Collection of Oriental Art," DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, June 28-August 1, 1978, no. 51.
Frances Klapthor, "The Way of Nature: Art from Japan, China, and Korea," Baltimore Museum of Art, September 21, 2025-March 1, 2026

Warren E. Cox, "The Book of Pottery and Porcelain," NY: Lothrop Lee and Shepard Co., Crown Publishers, 1944, vol. 1, pp. 174-180, ill. pl 52, p. 177.

"In the Spotlight: Recent Accession," "BMA Today," September 1991.

Frances Klapthor, Chinese Ceramics, Baltimore: BMA, 1993, no. 24, p. 34, ill. p. 25 and cover.

Glenn McNatt, "Where local lilies and lotuses live," "The Sun," Arts Section, March 29, 1998.

Baltimore Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.

Markings: On base: green ink on cloth (linen?) tape, "Rudolph Schaefer/Sung Tzu Chou Coll"; old plastic label, "VXX Sung/WARREN E COX/Tz'uchou/Collection/New York/P120"; written on round label with brown lion holding a 5-petaled flower "JTV" (indistinct); written in blue ink "C1152" on printed on round label "ESKENAZI LONDON"