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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1700 - 1800; Classification(s): stoneware, vase, throwing, stoneware, thrown in sections and turned, white slip, incised and painted in modulated shades of iron-brown with sgraffito under a clear glaze; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.629-1991]
Description: Double gourd vase. Buff stoneware, thrown in sections and turned, covered in white slip, incised and painted in modulated shades of iron-brown with sgraffito under a clear glaze. The double gourd vase has a small, tapered neck with no mouth rim. The footrim is slightly flared; the glazed base is slightly recessed and flat. The white slip stops short of the footrim, the glaze covers the gourd down to the base. The upper gourd is decorated with iris and leaves painted in brown, and the lower gourd painted with prunus in brown. | 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=Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); start=1700; end=1800 | 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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