id: 125995 accession number: 1948.220 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.220 updated: 2020-11-04 20:15:10.222000 Ewer with a Lion-shaped Spout, 900s-1000s. China, Shaanxi province, Tongchuan, Huangbaozhen, Five Dynasties period (907-960) or Northern Song dynasty (960-1126). Green-glazed porcelaneous stoneware with modeled, carved and incised decoration, Yaozhou ware; overall: 18.3 cm (7 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1948.220 title: Ewer with a Lion-shaped Spout title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 900s-1000s creation date earliest: 900 creation date latest: 1099 current location: 238 Chinese Ceramics creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Shaanxi province, Tongchuan, Huangbaozhen, Five Dynasties period (907-960) or Northern Song dynasty (960-1126) technique: green-glazed porcelaneous stoneware with modeled, carved and incised decoration, Yaozhou ware department: Chinese Art collection: China - Song Dynasty type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 18.3 cm (7 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Chinese Ceramics opening date: 1994-10-12T04:00:00 Chinese Ceramics. Tokyo National Museum (organizer) (October 12-November 23, 1994). title: Song Porcelain opening date: 1999-03-06T00:00:00 Song Porcelain. Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (March 6-April 13, 1999); Museum of Oriental Ceramics Osaka, Japan (April 25-June 13, 1999); Hagi Uragami Museum, Yamaguchi (June 20-August 15, 1999). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Chinese Ceramics. Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California (March 14-April 22, 1952). * Selected Sung Ceramics. The Japan Ceramic Society, Tokyo, Japan (April 26-May 2, 1955). * La Chine des Sung, 960-1279. Musee Cermushi, Paris, France (Sept. 5-Nov. 10, 1956). --- PROVENANCE (Dikran G. Kelekian [1867-1951], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1948 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1948-present date: 1948- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This remarkable ewer is most likely a very early and rare type of Yaozhou ware, with the shape and decoration recalling Tang metal ware. High quality pieces like this might have been sent as tribute to the Northern Song court. Yaozhou ware, or northern celadon, appeared to have been made in the north in emulation of the southern Yue ware. But its green glaze has a deep olive-green tone, and potters fully exploited the contrasting tones of the glaze over the incised and carved decoration to create rich textural effects. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 842 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n148 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 256 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n280 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 256 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n280 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 337 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n357 Hasebe, Gakuji. Sōji: shinpin to yobareta yakimono [Song ceramics = 宋磁 : 神品とよばれたやきもの]. [Tokyo?]: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1999. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 11 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.220/1948.220_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.220/1948.220_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.220/1948.220_full.tif