White-Glazed Jar with Hidden Design
1500s–1600s
Maker Unknown
Chinese Art
White-Glazed Jar with Hidden Design, 1500s–1600s. China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Porcelain with sweet-white (tianbai; 甜白) glaze; overall: 13.9 x 16.4 cm (5 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.185 Tianbai, or sweet-white glaze, was developed to accommodate the Yongle emperor’s (reigned 1403–24) preference for white ceramics.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- Porcelain with sweet-white (tianbai; 甜白) glaze
- Medium
- porcelain, sweet-white, tianbai, glaze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 13.9 x 16.4 cm (5 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.)
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 2020.185
- Credit Line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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