Stoneware vase

Description

This vase is the only known stoneware work by landscape painter Jiang Eshi. On one side, bamboo branches hang from the truncated top of the vase. On the other side, the artist’s inscription reads, “Qingshuang made it for pleasure,” followed by his two seals. Qingshuang was Jiang’s courtesy name, which the painter took up later in life. His inexperience as a ceramist is evident, but the unique form and decorations of this vase echo his bold, rhythmic brushwork with ink on paper.

Provenance

Margaret O. Gentles (1905–1969), Chicago, by 1961 [on long-term loan at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 29, 1961]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

Stoneware vase

Jiang Eshi

20th Century

Accession Number

137286

Medium

Stoneware with incised decoration

Dimensions

30 × 28.2 cm (11 13/16 × 11 1/8 in.)

Classification

stoneware

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Bequest of Margaret O. Gentles