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Potter Seated with Double Gourd Vase

Unknown Artist

Made in South China, this figurine of a potter holding a double-gourd vase was probably once used as a toy. The coarse white porcelain form is covered with thin light greenish-blue, qingbai, glaze. The potter's cap and the coils on his shoulders are painted with blackish-brown ferruginous slip. The glaze stops short of the slightly recessed base, which is burnt a very light pinkish-buff color.

Credit: The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund

1300s

Porcelain with underglaze decoration, qingbai ("blue-white") ware

13.5 cm

1973.14

Image and text: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023

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