Box
Unknown Artist
Ceramics with green, gray-green, and blue-green glazes are often classified as "celadons" in Western writings. Traditionally, the term has been understood as a reference to a character in an eighteenth-century French play; however, it may have been derived from a corruption of the name Saladin, the founder of the short-lived Ayyubid dynasty in Egypt, who sent forty green-glazed ceramic pieces to a Syrian ruler in the twelfth century. The gray-green glaze on this box is characteristic of Yue wares produced in Zhejiang Province from the ninth to the eleventh century for use at court and for domestic consumption.
Geography: China
Culture: Chinese
Period: Five Dynasties period (907-60 C.E.)
Credit: Wayland Wells Williams, B.A. 1910, Collection, Gift of Mrs. Frances Wayland Williams
10th century
Stoneware with green glaze (yue ware)
3.4 x 8.3 cm
1948.47
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