Globular Bottle, 13th century, 9 9/16 x 9 3/16 in. ( x cm), Tz’u-chou ware Stoneware with brown glaze with 'cut-glaze' designs, China, 13th century, Probably used to store wine, this incised globular bottle has two bands of floral and cloud decoration that were carved through the stable but still moist glaze to the clay body before firing. 'Cut-glaze' decoration, as this technique is called, rose to prominence in Cizhou kilns during the Northern Song (960-1127) and Jin (1115-1234) periods. The method was inspired by the more complicated earlier Cizhou decorative techniques

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