Jar in the Shape of a Fruit (1100s): Art, History and Details

Jar in the Shape of a Fruit (1100s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This dark-brown glazed jar, with the heavy clay body and translucent glaze on the cover and the top just below it, has a rare shape of a fruit. It has a narrow foot with several moldings and incised wavy pattern immediately below the cover which is shaped in the form of a curling fruit stem that forms a handle. It is difficult to determine what type of fruit was meant, possibly a squash.

Object facts

• Title: Jar in the Shape of a Fruit
• Date: 1100s
• Culture: Cambodia, Northeast Thai kiln, Khmer Ware, Angkor Wat/Bayon period, 12th century
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: glazed pottery with brown slip
• Dimensions: Diameter: 15.2 cm (6 in.); Overall: 24 cm (9 7/16 in.)
• Collection: Cambodian Art
• Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
• Accession number: 1983.156

Collection credit

Gift of the Staff of The Cleveland Museum of Art in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “Year in Review for 1983.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (February 1984): 38–79.

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