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Water Jar (Yu)
- Medium: Porcelain with glaze
- Place Made: Jiangxi, China
- Dates: 1662-1722
- Dynasty: Qing Dynasty
- Period: Kangxi Period
- Collections: Asian Art
- Museum Location:
This item is on view in Asian Galleries, The Arts of China, 2nd Floor - Accession Number: 32.1209a-b
- Credit Line: Gift of the executors of the estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam
- Image: Component, 32.1209a_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
- Catalogue Description: Inner contracting mouth;squat shallow belly; shallow circular foot. Includes ivory cover. Monochrome glaze. Undecorated surface. 6-character cobalt-blue inscription in standard (kai) script: "Made during the Kangxi reign of the Great Qing". Beside lower unglazed section of circular foot, clear glaze with light green color on vessel's interior and foot's interior. Red-bean glaze, containing copper for its color, covers vessel's exterior. Since many layers of glaze were sprayed on, the glaze is also called "blown glaze", i.e. glazing by sufflation. Exposed area has green colored spots. Object used in a scholar's studio. Condition: Intact.
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