Jizhou kilns
Wine Jar Decorated with Biscuit-Reserved Plum Blossoms
1200-1299
Physical Qualities
Stoneware with brown glaze, 9 9/16 × 7 1/16 in. (24.3 × 18 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number
1989.77
Paper stencils affixed to the surface of this wine jar kept glaze off the surface,
creating a pattern of unglazed clay. Plum blossoms were a popular motif. The
jar may have contained plum wine. Perhaps the jar was taken on an outing
to search for the first plum blossoms of spring, which was a popular activity
for the literati and educated elite of south China.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1989; J. J. Lally & Co., New York
Frances Klapthor, "The Way of Nature: Art from Japan, China, and Korea," Baltimore Museum of Art, September 21, 2025-March 1, 2026
Frances Klapthor, Chinese Ceramics, Baltimore: BMA, 1993, no. 25, p. 36, ill. p. 37.
On View at the BMA
