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Vase: ML.28-1992

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

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Description

White stoneware miniature vase. Decorated in dark brown on a white slip ground, under a transparent colourless glaze. Piriform with a long slender neck and wide flat rim, standing on a footring. The sides are decorated with three groups of three curved brown strokes. The lower part of the vase and base are undecorated. Cizhou ware

Legal notes

Lent to the museum by Helen H. L. Whittow (nee Malcolm)

Measurements and weight

Height: 7.2 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Loan (1992) by Whittow, Helen H. L. (nee Malcolm)

Dating

Northern Song (960-1127)
11th-12th Century
1000 - 1127

Materials used in production

Glaze
Slip
Stoneware

Techniques used in production

Slip coating
Glazing

Identification numbers

Accession number: ML.28-1992
Primary reference Number: 138734
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 27 January 2023 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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