White-Glazed Jar with Hidden Design
A squat, rounded porcelain jar with a short everted neck stands on a dark gray ground. Its pale sweet-white glaze carries faint incised floral patterns that show only in raised light, in bands around the shoulder and body.
Look closer: Faint incised floral pattern on the lower body, visible only at a glancing angle.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1500s–1600s
- Medium
- Porcelain with sweet-white (tianbai; 甜白) glaze
- Source
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Size
- 3400 × 3209 px
Public domain · The Cleveland Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1699).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift