Vase (Meiping) (1200s): Art, History and Details
Vase (Meiping) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1200s, green-glazed porcelaneous stoneware, Longquan ware. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Vase (Meiping) (1200s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
The Longquan potter applied many coats of glaze and allowed each to dry before adding another. With firing, the glaze matured to a thick and cloudy layer, making the pottery more like an exquisite emulation of jade.
Object facts
- Title: Vase (Meiping)
- Date: 1200s
- Culture: China, Zhejiang Province, Longquan region, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: green-glazed porcelaneous stoneware, Longquan ware
- Dimensions: Overall: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.)
- Collection: China - Song Dynasty
- Department: Chinese Art
- Accession number: 1957.52
Collection credit
John L. Severance Fund
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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