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Cocoon-Form Jar with Later Decoration - Image 1

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Cocoon-Form Jar with Later Decoration

200-1991

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Cocoon-Form Jar with Later Decoration

Cocoon-Form Jar with Later Decoration

Cocoon-Form Jar with Later Decoration

200-1991

Physical Qualities Earthenware repainted with unfired pigments, 9 1/2 x 11 x 6 3/4 in. (24 x 28 x 17 cm.)

Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from Julius Levy Memorial Fund

Object Number 1992.212

The taut profile of the jar is characteristic of the Western Han while the colorfully repainted surface illustrates a late 20th century attempt to recreate the original, fugitive unfired decoration.

The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1992; Andrew Kahane, Ltd., New York

Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Chinese Mortuary Ceramics from the Collection," December 2008-December 2009.

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