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Description: | Artist: Unknown, pottery; Date(s): circa 1100 - 1200; Classification(s): stoneware, ewer, throwing, stoneware, thrown, with parts attached, incised and celadon-glazed; Acquisition: given by Gompertz, G.St.G.M., Mr & Mrs, 1984, Gompertz Gift [C.61 & A-1984]
Description: Gourd-shaped ewer and cover. Stoneware, thrown, with parts attached, incised and celadon-glazed. This ewer has a gourd-shaped body with flat base, a curved spout and a handle twisted of three strands. The domed cover is of flower-shaped outline. The body of the ewer is intersected by six vertical incised lines, a lotus leaf and stem are delicately incised on the spout, and the cover is similarly incised with the veins of a lotus leaf. The fine clay body is thinly covered with a glossy transparent jade-green glaze. The base is free of glaze and shows traces of fire-clay spurs, and remains of the saggar in which it was fired adhere to the glaze around it. | 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=1100; 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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