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Covered Jar (lid)
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This covered cylindrical jar with three animal feet is lavishly covered with a cobalt blue glaze in the exterior and an amber glaze in the interior. Of the colored lead glazes of sancai (three-color) ware, blue was preeminent and precious. Imported cobalt from Persia (Iran, Afghanistan) was used as a glaze colorant that yields a rich, brilliant blue of considerable splendor.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineCovered Jar (lid), early 700s. China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Glazed earthenware; overall: 14.4 cm (5 11/16 in.); diameter of lid: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1948.228.b
