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

Ovoid Bottle with Brown Glaze and Blue Splashes

Artist Unknown

CultureChinese | Han Dynasty

Date9th century

MediumStoneware | Glaze | Huangdao ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze enlivened with blue splashes

DimensionsOverall: 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm)

Credit LinePerry Collection Purchase

Object number54.47.1

Collections

Asian Art

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 106

DescriptionBottle; Huangdao ware. Brown glazed bottle has ovoid body, tapering narrow neck, slightly everted lip rim, 1/4" flaring foot rim, flat bottom. Glaze falls one third of the way to the foot, 3 droplets on one side. Exposed body burnt greyish-buff, reddish in one area. A cream and blue glaze falls unevenly from neck in large splotches with a splashed glaze effect.

Published ReferencesCovered jar of Huang-Dao ware in _Oriental Art_, Spring 1975, p. 17. This type of ware is also discussed in Ayers, J., _Cloud Wampler Collection at the Everson Museum_, (Syracuse, NY), p. 57-58: "Almost nothing is known of this striking and unusual ware, which ranks as one of the first Chinese wares to be glazed with feldspathic glazes of two different colors"..."A third site producing black-glazed wares...was discovered at Huang-dao, Chia-hsien, in Honan Province; wares from this site splashed at the shoulder with large patches of a mottled whitish glaze, allow us...provisionally to classify vessels of this kind as Huang-dao-yao."