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9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) high
Ralph M. Chait, New York, by 1925. Eastern Art Museum. Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 19 March 1953, lot 60.
Marbling, known in Chinese as jiao tai (mixed clay), became a popular decorative technique on ceramics of the Tang dynasty and continued to be made throughout the Song-Jin period at a number of northern kilns, including the Kuangshan kilns in Jiaozuo and the Dangyangyu kilns in Xiuwu county, both in northern Henan province. The marbled appearance could be achieved either by combining clays of different colors when making the vessel, or by slicing the twisted and kneaded clay into thin layers that would be laminated to the surface of the vessel, as is the case with the present vase. In either case the piece was afterwards covered with a transparent glaze. Both marbling techniques required considerable skill on the part of the potter. A fragment of a marbled pillow from the Gong Xian kilns, Henan province, which shows the construction of thin marbled veneer on a plain pottery underlayer, was included in the Exhibition of Ceramic Finds from Ancient Kilns in China, University of Hong Kong, 1981, p. 110, no. 37.While jiao tai wares were made in a number of different vessel forms, including jars, cups, bowls, dishes and censers, vases of this type are very rare. A meiping dated to the Song dynasty that, like the present vase, has marbled decoration that has been applied to the surface, of comparable size (25.1 cm. high), but of broader proportions and covered with a pale yellow glaze, is in the Harvard Art Museums, accession number 2001.122.