New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Ovoid Jar with Blue Glaze

Artist Unknown

CultureChinese | Tang Dynasty

Dateearly-mid 8th century

MediumCeramic | Lead glazed ware | White earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue glaze, interior glazed with pale yellow

DimensionsOverall: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm)

Credit LinePerry Collection Purchase

Object number54.47.6

Collections

Asian Art

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 106

DescriptionGlobular jar has wide shoulders, double incised encircling line. Mouth wide, everted lip, bottom flat. Blue glaze runs unevenly down two thirds of the body; glaze mottled and of uneven depth. Yellowish glaze on interior although not on immediate interior mouth area. Glaze deteriorated (large green-yellow patch on one side); several firing irregularities.

Exhibition History"Chinese Ceramics: Art and Technology", High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, 11/19/84-2/24/85. Published ReferencesShirley H. Ganse, _Chinese Ceramics: Art and Technology_ (Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Art, 1984), p. 31, no. 61.