Jar with wide mouth

Sherds with suffused glaze, unearthed from Henan and Shanxi, show the dominant color schemes to be either a black, brown, grayish, or greenish background suffused with lighter colored flecks, or a reverse type, with dark splashes on a light ground. This piece, although in a common type of glaze, is marked by appliquéd medallions jumbled on the high shoulder to highlight embossed designs based on their current metalwork. Since appliqués did not commonly decorate jars with suffused glaze (ZGMS Quanji 1988 vol. II: pl. 33), this unusual application heightens the importance of this jar.