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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1700 - 1800; Classification(s): hard-paste porcelain, bottle, painting underglaze, hard-paste porcelain, painted underglaze in blue and overglaze in red, pale red, green, and aubergine enamels, and gold; Acquisition: given by Finch, Irene, Miss, 1998-10-12, Given by Miss Irene Finch [C.28-1998]
Description: Tokkuri (sake bottle). Hard paste porcelain, painted underglaze in blue and overglaze in red, pale red, green, and aubergine enamels and gold. Square section presumably slab construction sake bottle with gently tapering sides, angular shoulder flat top, with a small cylindrical neck with projecting rim; flat unglazed base. The sides are decorated with upright rectangular panels. On two of the four faces they have designs of prunus and iris within iron-red and gilt zig-zags, surrounded by an underglaze blue frame, and reserved on a green, white, gilt and red patterned ground. The two other faces are decorated with dragons and clouds in underglaze blue diagonally separated by a gold and red zig-zag band from flowering prunus. The shoulder is painted with four panels, two of butterflies, and two of flower with a balustrade reserved on underglaze blue and gold. The flat section around the neck has four flower heads on an iron-red ground and plantain leaves circling the base of the neck. | 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 hard-paste porcelain | Temporal: | name=18th century; 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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