Foliate Vase

11th–early 12th century

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

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

Disclaimer

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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

  • David Ake Sensabaugh, The Scholar as Collector: Chinese Art at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2004), 19, 43, no. 21, fig. 10.
  • 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.
  • Mimi Gardner Gates, The Communion of Scholars: Chinese Art at Yale, exh. cat. (New York: China House Gallery, 1982), 76–77, no. 31, ill.
  • 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
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

stoneware, vases

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