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Description: | Artist: Unknown, pottery; Date(s): circa 1150 - 1200; Classification(s): stoneware, ewer, throwing, stoneware, thrown, with parts attached, indented, incised and celadon-glazed; Acquisition: given by Gompertz, G.St.G.M., Mr & Mrs, 1984, Gompertz Gift [C.52 & A-1984]
Description: The ewer has an eight-lobed body, curved spout, and a handle carved to simulate bamboo, with a loop in the form of a lotus bud on top. The footring is very shallow. The eight-petalled lid has a (replaced) lotus-bud knob accompanied by applied stem and leaves. A band of petal panels is incised at the mouth and one of lotus petals at the base, each lobe shows a delicate spray of lotus, and a large lotus leaf is incised on the spout. The cover is incised with a classic-scroll border. The glaze is of pale bluish-green jade colour, thickly applied and glossy, and on the ewer partly discoloured. The ewer shows large uneven spur-marks near the footring and in the centre of the base. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Unknown ewer stoneware | Temporal: | name=12th Century; start=1150; end=1200 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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