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accession number: 1948.226
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Vase with Floral Scrolls, 900s-1000s. China, Henan province, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). Glazed stoneware with incised and slip-inlaid decoration, Cizhou ware; diameter of mouth: 12.7 cm (5 in.); overall: 41.3 cm (16 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1948.226
title: Vase with Floral Scrolls
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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
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culture: China, Henan province, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
technique: glazed stoneware with incised and slip-inlaid decoration, Cizhou ware
department: Chinese Art
collection: China - Song Dynasty
type: Ceramic
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CREATORS
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measurements: Diameter of mouth: 12.7 cm (5 in.); Overall: 41.3 cm (16 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Masterpieces of Far Eastern Ceramics
opening date: 1970-10-09T04:00:00
Masterpieces of Far Eastern Ceramics. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (October 9-November 29, 1970).
title: The Colors of Ink
opening date: 1974-01-10T04:00:00
The Colors of Ink. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).
title: Freedom of Clay and Brush: Tz'u Chou Type Wares
opening date: 1980-09-17T04:00:00
Freedom of Clay and Brush: Tz'u Chou Type Wares. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (organizer) (November 17, 1980-January 18, 1981); China House Gallery, New York City, NY (March 16-May 24, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 5-September 6, 1981).
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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Cleveland Museum of Art, 1940, Chinese Ceramics
* Los Angeles County Museum, Chinese Ceramics, March 14-April 27, 1952, p. 90, fig. 228
* Selected Sung Ceramics, (Tokyo, April 26-May 2, 1955), The Japan Ceramic Society
* Tokyo, Tokyo National Museum: Toyo toji no sekai (The World of Oriental Ceramics), 1970
* Sherman E. Lee, The Colors of Ink, cat. #51, p. 121 and 131, Asia Society, NY 1974
* Yutaka Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuriesi in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 AD (Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana University Press, 1980), exhib. cat. pl. no. 13. Indianapolis Museum of Art 11/17/80-1/17/81; China House Gallery, NY 3/16/81-5/24/81; Cleveland Museum of Art 8/5/81-9/6/81
* The World of Ceramics - Masterpieces from The Cleveland Museum of Art. CMA 6/30/82-9/5/92. Catalogue edited by Jennifer Neils, essay by Sherman E. Lee (CMA, 1982) no. 115
* Tokyo, Japan Tobu Museum of Art (3/6/99 - 4/13/99); Osaka, Japan Museum of Oriental Ceramics (4/25/99 - 6/13/99); Yamaguchi, Japan Hagi Uragami Museum (6/20/99 - 8/15/99) "Song Porcelain (Soji)" p. 135, cat. no. 96.
* Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 2003-March 15, 2004).
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PROVENANCE
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Cizhou ware characteristically shows the use of slip coating, bold designs, and color contrasts to achieve stunning visual effects. This extremely rare and handsome vase is distinguished by its remarkable rhythmic execution of the floral designs achieved by the use of incised and slip-inlaid decoration. With firing, the slip coating and inlaid decoration assumed a soft ivory color whereas the exposed clay body displayed a warm cinnamon brown.
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RELATED WORKS
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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. 835
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n147
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. 255
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n279
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. 255
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n279
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. 336
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n356
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 110-111, no. 115
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 99
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Giuffrida, Noelle. Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018.
page number: Reproduced: p. 164, fig. 93
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