Double Chicken-Headed Ewer
581-618 C.E.
Maker Unknown
Asian Art
Especially during the ninth to eleventh centuries, Chinese connoisseurs prized high-fired green-glazed ceramics and compared their exquisite gray-green glazes to precious jade. Green-glazed ware, know generally as Yue ware but often called "celadon" in the West, was manufactured both for daily use and for burial. The Chicken-Headed Ewer was most likely produced as a burial good, and excavations have revealed comparable early examples in tombs from the fourth century to the seventh. The two spouts on the remarkable, tall Chicken-Headed Ewer are not functional, further identifying it as a burial object.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- Yue ware, stoneware, glaze
- Locations
- Place made: China
- Dynasty
- Sui Dynasty
- Period
- Southern Dynasties
- Dimensions
- 14 3/8 x 8 in. (36.5 x 20.3 cm) Diameter of mouth: 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm)
- Departments
- Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 1996.26.2
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George J. Fan
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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