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Melon-Shaped Ewer
11th or 12th century
Kimbell Art Museum
Fort Worth, United States
Qingbai ware, prized for its elegant restraint, was produced near the great ceramic center of Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province, in south China. These delicate porcelains are distinguished by a clear, bluish white glaze over incised, combed, or molded decoration. On this ewer, a broad band of lightly incised floral scrolls within a field of freely combed lines adorns the body and shoulder.
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Details
- Title: Melon-Shaped Ewer
- Date Created: 11th or 12th century
- Location: China
- Physical Dimensions: H. 6 in. (15.2 cm); Diam. 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm)
- Provenance: (N.V. Hammer, Inc., New York), by1973; purchased by Ruth Carter Stevenson (b. 1923), Fort Worth, 1973; acquired by Kimbell Art Foundation, Fort Worth, gift of Ruth Carter Stevenson, 1976.
- Rights: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
- External Link: www.kimbellart.org
- Medium: Porcelain with pale greenish blue glaze (Qingbai ware)
- Kamakura period (1185-1333): Song dynasty (960–1279)
- Credit: Gift of Ruth Carter Stevenson
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