Dish
The interior of this unusual dish features numerous “teeth” that would have been used to grind food or medicine. The meticulous surface treatment required the potter to lift each tine by hand when the clay was partially dry and still leather hard.
Artwork Details
- 金 磁州窯系白地黑花磁研磨盤
- Title: Dish
- Period: Jin dynasty (1121–1234),
- Date: 12th century
- Culture: China
- Medium: Glazed stoneware (Cizhou-type ware)
- Dimensions: Diam. 5 in. (12.7 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1944
- Object Number: 44.81.2
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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