Double Chicken-Headed Ewer
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.
MEDIUM
Yue ware, stoneware, glaze
DATES
581â618 C.E.
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) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Asian Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
1996.26.2
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George J. Fan
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Double Chicken-Headed Ewer, 581â618 C.E. Yue ware, stoneware, glaze, 14 3/8 x 8 in. (36.5 x 20.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George J. Fan, 1996.26.2. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1996.26.2_SL1.jpg)
IMAGE
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