Double Chicken-Headed Ewer
- Medium: Yue ware, stoneware, glaze
- Place Made: China
- Dates: 581-618 C.E.
- Dynasty: Sui Dynasty
- Period: Southern Dynasties
- Collections: Asian Art
- Museum Location:
This item is on view in Asian Galleries, The Arts of China, 2nd Floor - Accession Number: 1996.26.2
- Credit Line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George J. Fan
- Image: Overall, 1996.26.2_transp6059.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
Especially during the ninth to eleventh centuries, Chinese connoisseurs prized high-fired green-glazed ceramics and compared their exquisite gray-green glazes to precious jade. Green-glazed ware, know generally as Yue ware but often called "celadon" in the West, was manufactured both for daily use and for burial. The Chicken-Headed Ewer was most likely produced as a burial good, and excavations have revealed comparable early examples in tombs from the fourth century to the seventh. The two spouts on the remarkable, tall Chicken-Headed Ewer are not functional, further identifying it as a burial object.
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