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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1500 - 1600; Classification(s): stoneware, bottle jar, throwing, stoneware, thrown, white slip, painted in iron black with brown-iron wash, under clear glaze; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.620-1991]
Description: Bottle jar. Buff stoneware, thrown, covered in white slip, and painted in iron-black with brown-iron wash, under a clear glaze. The truncated vase has high-rounded shoulders, with a small, cylindrical, unglazed neck and everted mouth rim. Its body tapers towards a flat base. The top and bottom of the jar are decorated in a brown glaze. The middle section has three bordered panels of scrolls and cross-hatching, which are painted in brown on a white slip. One panel depicts a man standing; the second panel is decorated with a lotus blossom; and the third panel depicts a seated cross-legged figure wearing robes. Each panel is within lobed reserves. | 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 bottle jar stoneware | Temporal: | name=Ming; start=1500; end=1600 | 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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