Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
A low, wide mottled purple ceramic basin with small pointed feet and a band at the top lip with small, tan circles widely spaced out. The inside is pale green-blue.

Circular Basin with Drum-Nail Decor and Three Cloud Scroll Feet

Chinese

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 4 (si) inscribed on base before firing

Ming dynasty, 1368-1644

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