Minneapolis Institute of Art

Jar with Rouletted Decoration

China

Date

11th-12th century

Medium

Cizhou ware Stoneware with white slip and brown overslip with carved decoration under clear glaze

Department

Asian Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Over twenty decorative techniques were used at Cizhou and Cizhou-type kilns throughout north China. Probably from Paofeng in Henan province, this jar is ornamented in the scraffito manner with an olive-brown overslip carved through to a white slip with a roulette creating bands of short oblique strokes in close-packed rows all under a clear glaze. Only a few jars decorated in this unusual manner are recorded. They can all be assigned northern origins and may have come from the same kiln. This small vessel is a testament to the decorative ingenuity of Cizhou potters who, with a palette limited mainly to brown-and-white, created an enormous variety of appealing designs. Asia

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