南宋至元 景德鎮窯青白瓷纏枝紋瓶|Bottle with vegetal scrolls

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late 13th century · Porcelain with incised and carved design under bluish glaze (Jingdezhen Qingbai ware) · Asian Art

Known as Qingbai, literally bluish-white, this type of porcelain features a jade-like glaze surface, often with fluent carving decoration, such as vegetal scrolls on this vase. Qingbai porcelain was a dominant product from Jingdezhen, a major ceramic center in south China, from the twelfth to the thirteenth century. These objects were not only widely produced for the domestic market but also for export to Japan, Southeast Asia, and as far as East Africa.

Artist

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Date

late 13th century

Medium

Porcelain with incised and carved design under bluish glaze (Jingdezhen Qingbai ware)

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1923