Brown-spotted celadon vase

Ceramics
China

Materials:

Celadon-glazed porcelaneous stoneware 青瓷

Date:

Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)

Size:

Height 28 cm

Place of origin:

China, Zhejiang, Longquan kilns

Description:

Longquan brown-spotted celadon bottle of slender pear shape with tapering sides, tall slender neck with spreading mouth, and rounded, everted lip; straight foot and glazed, flat base with a circular recess in the centre. Whitish porcelain with translucent light grey-green glaze decorated with spots of ferruginous dark brown. The foot ring burnt orange-brown.

Comments:

Celadons decorated with brown spots produced by iron oxide are especially admired in Japan, where they are known as tobi seiji 飛青磁.

Inventory number:

CB.CC.1951.104

Copyright:

Fondation Baur

Photographer:

Marian Gérard