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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1600 - 1644; Classification(s): stoneware, bottle, throwing, stoneware, thrown and turned, painted (and perhaps partly stencilled) in iron-brown under a crazed, speckled olive green/brown glaze; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.626-1991]
Description: Bottle. Buff stoneware, thrown and turned, and painted (and perhaps partly stencilled) in iron-brown under a crazed, speckled olive green/brown glaze. Vase with tall, ovoid body, sloping shoulders and small neck with thickly potted, everted mouth rim. The body tapers gently to a double footrim which is unglazed. The lower rim is deeply recessed and flat. The vase is decorated with two birds, one sitting on a blossom branch, the other exotic bird is in flight surrounded by peonies and foliage. | 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 stoneware bottle | Temporal: | name=Ming; start=1600; end=1644 | 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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