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Plant-pot holder

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Plant-pot holder

14th century

Jun ware's blue hue was unusual at the time when prevalent colors for stoneware were black, white, green and yellowish-brown. Occasional splashes of purple also enhanced the appeal of this ware. The blue color was derived mainly from iron, whereas the purple hue came from copper.

Stoneware with opalescent purple and light blue glazes
2 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (6.35 x 13.97 cm)
L.: 8 1/8 in.
Thomas D. Stimson Memorial Collection
40.2
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
location
Now on view at the Asian Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Glaze, Pattern and Image: Decoration in Chinese Ceramics", September 7, 2002 - November 19, 2002

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, "Chinese Art: A Seattle Perspective", December 22, 2007 - July 26, 2009 (12/22/2007 - 7/26/2009)

Stanford, California, Stanford Art Gallery, "T'ang and Sung Ceramic Arts", 1950 (1950)

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing.
Published ReferencesCox, W. E., "Pottery and Porcelain", 1944, p. 162, fig. 319

Lee, S., "Sung Ceramics in the Light of Recent Japanese Ceramics," Artibus Asiae, XI 3, 1948, p. 173, fig. 9

"Handbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1951, p. 67 (b&w)

Munsterberg, Hugo, "The Arts of China", 1972, p. 143, # 76.

Foong, Ping, Xiaojin Wu, and Darielle Mason. "An Asian Art Museum Transformed." Orientations vol. 51, no. 3 (May/June 2020): p. 61, reproduced fig. 22 (installation view).

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