id: 134923 accession number: 1957.48 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.48 updated: 2023-06-02 11:05:35.077000 Basin, 1127–1279. China, Zhejiang province, Hangzhou, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Porcelaneous stoneware, Guan ware; diameter: 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1957.48 title: Basin title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1127–1279 creation date earliest: 1127 creation date latest: 1279 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Zhejiang province, Hangzhou, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) technique: porcelaneous stoneware, Guan ware department: Chinese Art collection: China - Song Dynasty type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). 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). title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00 Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Men-Chu Wang, Seller's no. 36 date: footnotes: citations: (Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1957 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1957– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The base shows that the basin was fired on 17 small spurs arranged in two concentric circles. digital description: wall description: Guan ware was the official ware fired at the Southern Song imperial kilns in Hangzhou. Multiple glazing is characteristic of this ware. The total thickness of the glaze can be greater than the clay body that supports it. Here, the thick blue-green glaze is webbed with a wide network of dark brown crackle as well as finer webs of light golden-brown and colorless crackle. The crackle was developed after firing, due to the different rates of expansion and contraction of the body and the glaze. It was consciously exploited to achieve an aesthetic effect and was stained at different stages during the cooling process. --- 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. 849 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n149 Milliken, William M. "Early Byzantine Silver." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 45, no. 3 (1958): 35–94. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 78 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142265 Mayuyama, Junkichi 繭山順吉. Chinese Ceramics in the West: Compendium of Chinese Ceramic Masterpieces in European and American Collection [欧米蒐蔵中国陶磁図錄]. Tokyo: Mayuyama & Co, 1960. page number: Reproduced: pl. 51 url: 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. 257 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n281 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. 257 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n281 Gakuji Hasebe 長谷部楽爾, ed. Tōji [陶磁= Ceramics]. Vol. 5 in Chūgoku bijutsu [中國美術 = Chinese art in western collections]. Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬, ed. Tōkyō: Kōdansha, 1972. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: Vol. 5, color pl. 43 url: Hasebe, Gakuji 長谷部楽爾, et al. Sō [宋 = Sung dynasty]. Tokyo: Shōgakkan, 1977. page number: Reproduced: fig. 78 url: 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. 339 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n359 Kleinhenz, Henry J. "Porcelains for Imperial Use: The Sung Dynasty." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 4 (1978): 135–150h. page number: Reproduced: fig. 17, a url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159578 Neils, Jenifer. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 110 url: Hasebe, Gakuji 長谷部楽爾. Sōji: shinpin to yobareta yakimono [宋磁: 神品とよばれたやきもの = Song ceramics]. Japan: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1999. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 96, cat. no. 59 url: Chung, Anita. "A Connoisseur's Eye, A Scholar's Mind: The Legacy of Sherman Lee." Orientations vol. 40, no. 5 (2009). page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 32, fig. 6 url: Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 92–93 url: 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. 102 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 33 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.48/1957.48_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.48/1957.48_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.48/1957.48_full.tif