Skip to main content

Proto-Porcelain Ribbed Jar

CultureChinese, Eastern Zhou dynasty
Date5th-4th Century BCE
Mediumstoneware with natural ash glaze
Dimensions10 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. (27.3 x 40 x 40 cm)
Classificationsceramics
Credit LineGift of Smith Freeman and Austin Scarlett
Object number2009.26.18
DescriptionOf wide-shouldered ovoid form, decorated with two bands of knife-pared vertical ribs and with stamped spiral motifs around the wide mouth interrupted by a pair of small loop and loose ring handles, the stoneware body covered with a mottled olive-tan `kiln gloss¿ glaze. (broken and restored)
On View
On view
Collections
Storage Jar
Unidentified artist
15th century
Globular Jar
Unidentified artist
5th-6th century
Cylindrical Ribbed Jar
Unidentified artist
4th century CE
Jar
Unidentified artist
5th-6th century
Large 'Hu' Storage Jar
Unidentified artist
2nd-3rd century
Ribbed Bowl
Unidentified artist
1st century CE
Blue-Splashed Black-Glazed Stoneware Jar
Unidentified artist
Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906)
Mask
Unidentified artist
before mid-1960s
Jar
Unidentified artist
late Zhou style
Small Jar
Shiro Tsujimura
2003
Jug
Unidentified artist
3rd-4th century CE
Large Jar with Stamped Decoration
Unidentified artist
Late Spring and Autumn Period, 6th-5th Century BCE