Museum Meanderings - The Boston Museum of Fine Arts
I missed some postings this week, so I'll check in now with a few of my favorite pieces of Chinese ceramic art from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Captions are from the museum. Enjoy!!
Northern Song dynasty, late 11th century. Marbleized stoneware, with clear glaze.
Jar with striated decoration
Tea Bowl with impression of a leaf
Southern Song dynasty, 12th-13th centuries
Jizhou ware; stoneware
Jizhou ware; stoneware
From early times Chinese potters understood that the ashes of plant materials could melt directly into glazes. Nevertheless, it was an unexpected flight of imagination to imbed a leaf under the dark glazes of this bowl, which was fired to a glassy pool of rich colors that retains the shadow of the leaf.
Covered Bowl
Northern Song dynasty, late 11th - early 12th centuries. Marbleized stoneware, with clear glaze.
Northern Song dynasty, late 11th century. Marbleized stoneware, with clear glaze.
Jar with striated decoration
Tang dynasty, about A.D. 700-750
Sancai polychrome ware; earthenware with cobalt and copper-green glaze.
Sancai polychrome ware; earthenware with cobalt and copper-green glaze.
Labels: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Chinese ceramics, pottery, Tang Dynasty
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