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accession number:	2012.448.1
share license status:	CC0
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Leather Bag-Shaped Flask with Cover, 916–1125. Northeast China, Liao dynasty (916-1125). Earthenware with green glaze; overall: 24.5 x 16.5 x 16 cm (9 5/8 x 6 1/2 x 6 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Donna and James Reid 2012.448.1

title:				Leather Bag-Shaped Flask with Cover
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creation date:			916–1125
creation date earliest:		916
creation date latest:		1125
current location:		239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork
creditline:			Gift of Donna and James Reid
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culture:	Northeast China, Liao dynasty (916-1125)
technique:	earthenware with green glaze
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	Chinese Art
type:		Ceramic
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measurements: Overall: 24.5 x 16.5 x 16 cm (9 5/8 x 6 1/2 x 6 5/16 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	(Uragami Sokyu-do Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to Donna and James Reid)
	date: ?-2006
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	Donna [b. 1931] and James Reid [1926-2020], Cleveland Heights, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 2006-2012
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2012-
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wall description:
Flasks like these derive their shapes from leather bags; even the edges are finely rouletted to resemble the seams of sewn leather. These were used by the nomadic Khitan people who established the Liao kingdom in Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, and North China. Such wares represented the Liao adoption of the Tang Chinese ceramic tradition, and yet they expressed ethnic identity and new innovations resulted from the cultural borrowing.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Uragami, Mitsuru 浦上満. <em>Ryō no tōji </em>[遼の陶磁 = Liao Ceramics]. Tōkyō: Uragami Sōkyūdō, 2005.
	page number: 	pp. 8–9
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	“Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 2011-2012.” <em>Archives of Asian Art</em>, vol. 63, no. 2, 2013, pp. 215–276.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 16, p. 227
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/43676727

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