Brooklyn Museum: Asian Art: Double Chicken-Headed Ewer

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Double Chicken-Headed Ewer

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.

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

Collections: Asian Art: Double Chicken-Headed Ewer