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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 960 - 1127; Classification(s): stoneware, vase, throwing, stoneware, thrown, covered with slip and glazed, with moulded and incised decoration; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 [C.635B-1991]
Description: Bottle-shaped vase. Stoneware, covered with a cream slip and a crackled, bluish glaze encrusted with red dirt, with incised decoration. The vase has a long, slender neck, flattened mouth rim and scroll handles. The rounded body of the vase tapers to a flared footrim, with deep, recessed, uneven base encrusted with red dirt. A band of moulded phoenixes (Peng-Huang) circles the body with a band of incised lotus leaves beneath. | 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: | vase Unknown stoneware | Temporal: | name=Northern Song; start=960; end=1127 | 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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