Tea Bowl with Flowers

Maker: Unknown

12th–13th century

Asian Art

On view, 2nd floor, Asian Art

Although it was smaller than other centers, the Jizhou kiln complex in Jiangxi Province was among the most enterprising in Chinese history. Variegated black and brown glazes and stylized flowers—made using cut paper, which disintegrated during firing—fill the interior surface of this tea bowl, while the exterior is glazed with an additional pattern that was termed "tortoiseshell" by connoisseurs in fifteenth-century Japan.

Medium

Stoneware with paper-cut designs and black-and-brown tortoiseshell glaze (Jizhou ware)

Dimensions

2 1/4 × 4 1/4 in. (5.7 × 10.8 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Dr. Howard Balensweig, B.S. 1943, and Mrs. Carolyn Balensweig

Accession Number

1971.91.3

Geography

China

Culture

Chinese

Period

Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279)

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Carolyn Balensweig, (born 1945), and Dr. Howard Balensweig, (1921–2011), New York, by 1971: given to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1971
Bibliography
  • Sadako Ohki and Takeshi Watanabe, Tea Culture of Japan (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2009), 83, no. 8, ill.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

stoneware, tea bowls, utilitarian objects

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