Cizhou kilns
Small Food Storage Jar with Flower Design
1400-1599
Physical Qualities
Stoneware with iron decoration on white slip under transparent glaze, 6 7/8 H x 7 3/8 Diam. in. (17.5 x 18.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Laurance P. and Isabel S. Roberts, Baltimore
Object Number
2005.117
This food storage jar, decorated with flowers, would originally have had a flat ceramic lid. Slip—a thin layer of watery, refined clay covering the gray stoneware body—provided a smoother, whiter surface for the painted design. Kilns in China’s northern Henan, Hebei, and Shanxi Provinces have produced similar wares from the 10th century up to the present day, now more decorative than indispensable utilitarian ceramics
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by bequest, 2005; Isabel S. Roberts, Baltimore; Laurance P. and Isabel S. Roberts, Baltimore
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of art, "Across East Asia: China's Cultural & Artistic Legacy," October 30, 2019-December 31, 2023.
