Cleveland Museum of Art

Cup and Stand

Date

1100s

Medium

Porcelain with pale bluish-white glaze, qingbai ("blue-white") ware

Culture

China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)

Department

Chinese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The kilns of Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province produced an extremely delicate porcelain made from the local resources of kaolin (white China clay) and petuntse (a feldspathic rock called china stone). It is glazed with a clear bluish-white glaze, thus the name qingbai (blue-white) or yingqing (shadowy blue) for this type of ware.

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