id: 137198 accession number: 1962.154 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.154 updated: 2019-06-27 08:08:29.164000 Jar with Lion-Head Handles, 1300s. China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). Porcelain with underglaze painted decoration; diameter of mouth: 15.6 cm (6 1/8 in.); overall: 39.4 x 37.5 cm (15 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1962.154 title: Jar with Lion-Head Handles title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1300s creation date earliest: 1300 creation date latest: 1368 current location: 238 Chinese Ceramics creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) technique: porcelain with underglaze painted decoration department: Chinese Art collection: China - Yuan Dynasty type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter of mouth: 15.6 cm (6 1/8 in.); Overall: 39.4 x 37.5 cm (15 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - 1962 opening date: 1962-10-24T04:00:00 Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 24-November 25, 1962). title: The Twain Shall Meet opening date: 1985-10-30T04:00:00 The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986). title: Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection opening date: 1991-09-17T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992). title: The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia 1256-1353 opening date: 2002-10-28T00:00:00 The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia 1256-1353. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (October 28, 2002-February 16, 2003); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (April 13-July 27, 2003). title: Honoring Sherman Lee opening date: 2009-06-28T00:00:00 Honoring Sherman Lee. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 28-August 30, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The World of Ceramics - Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/30-9/5/1982). * Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 24, 1968) and Asia House, New York (January 16-March 2, 1969). --- PROVENANCE (J.T. Tai and Co., Inc. New York, NY, ?-1962, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1962 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1962-present date: 1962- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: The characters for "palace" and "South" are scratched into the white glaze on the vessel's shoulder, indicating that it was inventory of the South Palace. wall description: Appreciated for its strong profile, brilliant blue color, and firm delineation of the decorative patterns, this jar is a classic example of Yuan dynasty blue-andwhite ware. This type of ware was produced no later than 1330s for both domestic use (the court and common people alike) and overseas trade. This example testifies to the transmission of artistic ideas and techniques between China and the rest of the great Mongol Empire as a result of trade. The cobalt that was used as blue colorant for underglaze decoration was imported from Iran, likely from Kashan. The band of cloud-collar motifs with phoenixes set against floral grounds, as shown here, is an artistic vocabulary that can also be found in Iranian decorative arts of the Ilkhanid period (1256-1353). --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “Janus in Limbo.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 50, no. 1, 1963, pp. 3–6. page number: Reproduced: fig. 4 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151927 “Oriental Art Recently Acquired by American Museums.” Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, vol. 17, 1963, pp. 43–65. page number: Reproduced: p. 46, fig. 10 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20067062 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. 260 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n284 Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968. page number: Reproduced: pl. 156 url: 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. 260 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n284 Medley, Margaret. The Chinese Potter: A Practical History of Chinese Ceramics. Oxford: Phaidon,1976. page number: Reproduced: p. 183, fig 134 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. 344 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n364 Neils, Jenifer and Sherman E. Lee. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. page number: cat. no. 119 url: Gowing, Lawrence, ed. A History of Art. London: Macmillan, 1983. page number: Reproduced: p. 317 url: Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359. page number: Reproduced: p. 351, fig. 48 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914 Komaroff, Linda, and Stefano Carboni. The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press [distributor], 2002. page number: Reproduced: exh. cat no. 193, p. 285, fig. 17, p. 21 url: "Reopening of the Asian Galleries at The Cleveland Museum of Art: An Interview with David Franklin." Orientations: The Magazine for Collectors and Connoisseurs of Asian Art, vol. 44, no. 8 (November/December 2013): pp. 60-63 page number: Reproduced: p. 63 url: Gaskin, Steven P., "The David Vases: Considering Serpentine Waves on Yuan Blue-and-White." Orientations 46, no. 4 (May 2015): 81-89. page number: Reproduced: p. 86, figs. 9, 9a. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.154/1962.154_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.154/1962.154_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.154/1962.154_full.tif