Storage jar with blue glaze / Artist Unknown, China
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- Accession Number
- 1962/1.100
- Title
- Storage jar with blue glaze
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with light buff body and cobalt blue glaze
- Object Creation Date
- 600-649
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- China (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- China (nation)
- Dimensions
- 18 cm x 21.3 cm x 21.3 cm (7 1/16 in. x 8 3/8 in. x 8 3/8 in.)
- Century
- 1st half of 7th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- jar
- Secondary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Secondary Object Type
- vessel
- Physical Description
- Stoneware jar with cobalt blue glaze dripping down vessel; foot and bottom ? of jar left unglazed
- Subject Matter
- Cobalt glazes, no doubt inspired by imported Persian wares, first appear in China in the Tang dynasty (618–907). After the fall of the Tang, however, access to cobalt sources dried up with the changing political climate. Cobalt would re-emerge as an important element in Chinese porcelain decoration, after trade with Central Asia and Iran was re-established by the Mongols in the thirteenth century.
- Secondary Keywords
- asian
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- east asian
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 759 x 597
- File Size
- 28 KB
- Record
- 1962/1.100
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