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Description: | Large ginger jar with cover missing, white earthenware, painted with fish and swirling water in silver and copper lustre, on a blue-green glaze.Thrown globular jar tapering to foot, with short, tapered neck, missing cover. Decorated with a streaked dull green glaze, turquoise-blue around areas of lustre decoration, lustrous and gold round lower body. Painted in bright silver lustre with nine large fish, in two groups of four and five, with copper lustre eyes. Groups of irregular wavy lines and small bubbles in bright silver lustre indicate swirling movement of water. River bed with small plants and pebbles painted round base of vase.
Technique: thrown
Technique: reduction fired
Material: ceramics
Material: earthenware
Material: coloured glazes
Material: lustreware
Material: silver lustre
Material: copper lustre
Material: sang-de-boeuf glaze
jar & ginger jar & cover missing by Pilkington's Tiles Group Plc, Richard Joyce, 1908, (1920.142D). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.1565 | Go to resource |
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