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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Chinese
Title:Yue-type tea bowl with incised design
Date Made:late 10th-11th century Northern Song Dynasty
Type:Container
Materials:stoneware with gray-glaze celadon
Place Made:China
Measurements:2 1/2 in x 6 3/4 in diameter at lip; 6.35 cm x 17.145 cm
Narrative Inscription:  unsigned, undated
Accession Number:  SC 2008.65.3
Credit Line:Gift of Joan Lebold Cohen, class of 1954, and Jerome A. Cohen
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
tea bowl with rounded sides rising from a tapered foot and ending in a notched rim to suggest the petals of a flower, the interior freely incised with five stylized flower blossoms radiating from a central medallion, the exterior plain, all under a thin, pale grayish olive-green celadon glaze wiped clean from the foot rim with wedge-shaped interior to show the gray stoneware body, the base unglazed.

Label Text:
This bowl was probably made for export to Southeast Asia and is most likely yue ware manufactured in the area of Shang-lin Hu, Zhejiang province. It is confidently potted.

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