Yaozhou ware large dish with peony design
China, Shaanxi province, Yaozhou kilns, Yaozhou ware large dish with peony design, early 12th century, light gray stoneware with carved decoration under olive-green celadon glaze, Gift of Richard Louis Brown, public domain, 1997.192
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- Title
Yaozhou ware large dish with peony design
- Artist
- Date
early 12th century
- Period
China: Northern Song period (960-1127 CE)
- Medium
light gray stoneware with carved decoration under olive-green celadon glaze
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
3 in x 12 in diam.
- Collection Area
Asian Art
- Category
Ceramics
- Object Type
dish
- Culture
Chinese
- Credit Line
Gift of Richard Louis Brown
- Accession Number
1997.192
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
Yaozhou ware is a type of green-glazed stoneware that was made in northern China from the tenth through the early thirteenth centuries. More uniform in appearance than their southern cousins, Yaozhou celadons have an olive-green cast due to titanium impurities in the clay. A kiln temperature of about 1250ºC melts the glaze into a thin covering that fuses with the body. The exuberantly carved designs on Yaozhou bowls, dishes, and ewers reveal these characteristics to great advantage, as the glaze pools at the contours of the relief patterns. Perhaps because it was land-locked in northern China, Yaozhou ware was not exported in large numbers.
- Exhibitions
2008 Eternal Celadon: Ceramics and Jade from East Asia Portland Art Museum
