id: 147587 accession number: 1973.84 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.84 updated: 2025-02-09 03:44:29.995000 Chicken-Headed Ewer, 220–589 CE. China, Zhejiang province, Southern Dynasties period (420-589). Green-glazed stoneware with incised, carved and applied decoration, Yue ware; overall: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. MacDonald 1973.84 title: Chicken-Headed Ewer title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 220–589 CE creation date earliest: 220 creation date latest: 589 current location: 239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. MacDonald copyright: --- culture: China, Zhejiang province, Southern Dynasties period (420-589) technique: green-glazed stoneware with incised, carved and applied decoration, Yue ware department: Chinese Art collection: China - Southern Dynasties type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twain Shall Meet opening date: 1985-10-30T05:00:00 The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986). title: Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions opening date: 1994-10-18T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1994). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': "Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period Through Ch'ien Lung; A Loan Exhibition from Collections in America and Japan. Los Angeles, CA (March 14-April 27, 1952).", 'opening_date': '1952-03-14T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE Mr. and Mrs. John D. MacDonald, Cambridge, MA, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1973 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1973– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Trubner, Henry. Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period Through Ch'ien Lung; A Loan Exhibition from Collections in America and Japan. March 14 to April 27, 1952. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1952. page number: cat. no. 52 url: 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. 87, no. 92 url: Wilson, J. Keith, and Anne E. Wardwell. "New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 8 (1994): 270-347. page number: Reproduced: p. 322; Mentioned: p. 322, 324, 347 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161465 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.84/1973.84_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.84/1973.84_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.84/1973.84_full.tif