Collection
Melon-Shaped Ewer, 11th or 12th century
Chinese
Credit: Gift of Ruth Carter Stevenson
Qingbai ware, prized for its elegant restraint, was produced near the great ceramic center of Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province, in south China. These delicate porcelains are distinguished by a clear, bluish white glaze over incised, combed, or molded decoration. On this ewer, a broad band of lightly incised floral scrolls within a field of freely combed lines adorns the body and shoulder.
Provenance
Provenance
(N.V. Hammer, Inc., New York), by1973;
purchased by Ruth Carter Stevenson (b. 1923), Fort Worth, 1973;
acquired by Kimbell Art Foundation, Fort Worth, gift of Ruth Carter Stevenson, 1976.