Funerary jar with "peacock feather" pattern / Artist Unknown, China
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1969/2.160
- Title
- Funerary jar with "peacock feather" pattern
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Artist Nationality
- Chinese
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with sancai (three-color) glaze
- Object Creation Date
- 700-749
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- China (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- China (nation)
- Dimensions
- 19.5 cm x 21.5 cm (7 11/16 in. x 8 7/16 in.)
- Century
- 8th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- funerary jar
- Secondary Object Classification
- Ritual Objects
- Physical Description
- Earthenware jar with sancai (three-color) glaze in amber, green and cream with blue in a peacock-feather pattern
- Subject Matter
- Sancai, or tri-color wares, were one of the most brilliant innovations of Tang dynasty (618–907) potters. Working with the same clay used to produce white wares, potters added iron and copper oxide colorants to create the typical three-color palette of cream, amber, and olive green. Lead flux made it possible for these colored glazes to fuse to the earthenware body at relatively low kiln temperatures. It also allowed glazes to run, which made them very difficult to control, yet aesthetically appealing.
- Secondary Keywords
- art genres
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- asian
- associated concepts
- chinese ceramics styles
- chinese styles
- chinese styles and periods
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- containers by form
- descriptors
- east asian
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1715 x 1751
- File Size
- 400 KB
- Record
- 1969/2.160
- Link to this Item
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"Funerary jar with "peacock feather" pattern; Artist Unknown, China." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1969-sl-2.160/1969_2.160.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
