Minneapolis Institute of Art

Jar

China

Date

12th-13th century

Medium

Ganzhou ware Stoneware with combed and appliqué decoration and brown glaze

Department

Asian Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Distinctly formed jars, consisting of footless globular containers with short, vertical necks decorated with bosses and a thick, rolled-lip rim are associated with the Qili kilns at Kanzhou in Jiangxi province. While these unique jars vary in their size, their use of willow-basket marking, and glazed versus unglazed exteriors all have brown-glazed interiors. Because they range in size from small to large, these jars are often called rice measures in English, but their exact function remains unknown. Basket-weave designs were evident by the eleventh century in both porcelain and stoneware. The best known willow-basket jars, however, are the brown-glazed variety like this datable to the late Song and Yuan dynasties (13th-14th century). China, Asia

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