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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 960 - 1127; Classification(s): porcelain, vessel, throwing, porcelain, each covered with clear glaze encrusted with red dirt, decorated with incised and applied decoration; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 [C.639B-1991]
Description: Tomb vessel. Porcelain, covered with clear glaze encrusted with red dirt, and decorated with incised lotus petals and applied figures. The vessel has a wide, cylindrical neck with horizontal rings on the inside made with a wheel. On the shoulders and the body are seven figures standing on an applied scroll band, incised with lotus petals. Five of the figures in robes hold (clockwise) animal heads: a goat, monkey, chicken, dog and pig. The other two figures, also in robes, perhaps represent the sun and moon. The body tapers into a slightly everted foot with a recessed, flat base.
Of a pair with C.639A-1991. | 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: | vessel porcelain Unknown | 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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