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Description: | Artist: Unknown, pottery; Date(s): circa 1500 - 1550; Classification(s): stoneware, jar, throwing, stoneware, thrown, brushed with white slip, painted in iron-oxide and punch'ong-glazed; Acquisition: given by Gompertz, G.St.G.M., Mr & Mrs, 1984, Gompertz Gift [C.127-1984]
Description: Small jar with scrollwork. Stoneware, thrown, brushed with white slip, painted in iron-oxide and punch'ong-glazed. This small jar with rolled rim has the shape of a ginkgo fruit or abacus bead, and a low foot. The upper half of the body is brushed with white slip and painted in dark brown underglaze-iron with simple large-scale scrolls which form a striking contrast to the white ground. The lower half of the body is undecorated. The whole piece is covered with a greyish-blue glaze. The base shows traces of a bamboo tool used to compact the clay and thus prevent cracking, and the piece was fired on a sandy support. | 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: | jar Unknown stoneware | Temporal: | name=16th century; start=1500; end=1550 | 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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