Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
A low, wide blue and purple ceramic basin with small pointed feet and a band with small, tan circles widely spaced out along the top lip. The inside is 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 7 (qi) inscribed on base before firing

Ming dynasty, 1368-1644

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