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A small, stoneware jar of squat proportions, with a narrow, upright neck and a short, cylindricrical foot. The jar is decorated with loosely drawn floral patterns in cobalt blue underneath an overalll whitish glaze.
Kiln Unknown, Vietnam
Blue-and-white miniature jar with stylized floral design
1200 – 1499
Gift of the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Collection
2002/2.18
A small, flat-bottomed stoneware jar, with nearly straight sides flaring out to shoulders only slightly broader than the base, and narrowing to a short neck with an everted rim. The decoration consists of broad horizontal bands of cobalt blue pigment at the base, on the shoulder, and at the neck. The overall glaze, normally a whitish color, is a light brown here, possibly because of less than ideal conditions in the kiln.
Kiln Unknown, Vietnam
Blue-and-white storage jar
1200 – 1499
Gift of the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Collection
2002/2.21

Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Miniature Vase, with image of Shoki the Demon Queller (Hirado ware?)
1860 – 1910
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1954/1.529
A tiny, rounded stoneware box with a flat-topped lid, the lid decorated with a floral medallion in blue cobalt pigment before the entire box was coated with a whitish glaze.
Kiln Unknown, Vietnam
Blue-and-white miniature covered box with floral medallion on lid
16th century
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1993/2.24.1-2
Blue-and-white covered jar with landscape design of a river, trees, mountain, houses and it has a lid with blue an white designs.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Blue-and-white covered jar with landscape design
1890 – 1910
Gift of Professor Charles H. and Katharine C. Sawyer
2002/2.190A&B

Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Hagi ware incense burner, cylindrical shape on 3 legs (lid missing): design of swallows in flight
1767 – 1899
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1954/1.530
A round ceramic box (that is, a bowl with a fitted lid), decorated with chrysanthemum scrolls drawn in blue outline against a blue background. The blue is cobalt pigment painted before the application of a clear glaze.
Kiln Unknown, Vietnam
Blue-and-white covered box with chrysanthemum design
15th century
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1965/2.60A&B
A very small cup of a rounded shape with a slightly everted rim, standing on a relatively high, straight foot. The exterior of the bowl is decorated in two horizontal registers with geometric and abstracted natural motifs drawn with a very free hand in cobalt blue pigment, before a white glaze was applied to the whole cup. The interior of the foot is glazed brown.
Kiln Unknown, Vietnam
Blue-and-white cup with brown glaze inside foot
16th century
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1993/2.21
A melon-shaped stoneware box with a lid, the shape slightly faceted on the sides and the lid concave to a disk-shape center. The box is decorated with freehand floral and geometric designs in blue cobalt pigment, and then a whitish glaze was applied to the whole.
Kiln Unknown, Vietnam
Blue-and-white covered box with floral and geometric designs
16th century
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1993/2.23.1-2
A small, stoneware jar of squat proportions, with a narrow, upright neck and a short, cylindricrical foot. The jar is decorated with loosely drawn floral patterns in cobalt blue underneath an overalll whitish glaze.<br /> This jar makes an interesting contrast to 2002/2.18, which has a very similar design in a crisp, dark blue; the faded, smudged blue here may be a result of less than ideal conditions in the kiln.
Kiln Unknown, Vietnam
Blue-and-white miniature jar with stylized floral design
1200 – 1499
Gift of the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Collection
2002/2.19
Blue-and-white covered jar with landscape design of a river, trees, mountain, houses and it has a lid with blue an white designs.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Blue-and-white covered jar with landscape design
1890 – 1910
Gift of Professor Charles H. and Katharine C. Sawyer
2002/2.189A&B
A small, slightly squat, globular stoneware jar, resting on a broad and short foot, with a short, narrow neck rising to hold a slightly domed lid. There are three small lug handles at the shoulder, allowing the jar to be carried by a cord. The jar is decorated with three horizontal zones of decoration, either floral or abstract designs drawn freehand in cobalt blue pigment before a translucent glaze was applied to the entire vessel.
Kiln Unknown, Vietnam
Blue-and-white small lidded jar with three lug handles
16th century
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1993/2.20.1-2
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