|
Date: |
|
Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1400 - 1500; Classification(s): porcelain, vase, throwing, porcelain, thrown with applied handles, decorated in underglaze-blue; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.690-1991]
Description: Baluster vase. Hard-paste porcelain, decorated in underglaze-blue. The heavily potted vase has a cylindrical neck with applied lug handles below the rounded dish mouth. It has rounded shoulders, and the body tapers into a deep raised foot with flat, unglazed base. The vase is covered in a pale sea-green, celadon crackle glaze. The neck is painted with bamboo sprays either side of the lug handles, and flowering shrubs are painted on the body. | 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 porcelain Unknown | Temporal: | name=Ming; start=1400; end=1500 | 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 |
|
|