Foliate Vase | Yale University Art Gallery

11th–early 12th century

Medium: Stoneware with carved decoration under green glaze (Yaozhou ware)
Dimensions: 5 1/4 × 2 7/8 in. (13.3 × 7.3 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1955.4.6
Geography: China
Culture: Chinese
Period: Northern Song dynasty (960–1127)
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Otto Burchard, New York, 1930; Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955), New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 293, ill

Yutaka Mino and Katherine R. Tsiang, Ice and Green Clouds: Traditions of Chinese Celadon (Bloomington, Ind.: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1986), 144, fig. 54

Zhao Cao, Chinese Connoisseurship: The Ko Ku Yao Lun, the Essential Criteria of Antiquities (New York: Praeger, 1971), pl. 236

Gordon B. Washburn, Masterpieces of Asian Art in American Collections II, exh. cat. (New York: Intercultural Arts Press, 1970), 82

George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 25, no. 35

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

stoneware, vases

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