Ewer: AAL.2 & A-2000

Current Location: Gallery 28 - Arts of Asia Gallery

Maker(s)

Entities

Ewer
Water ewer and stopper

Description

Water ewer and stopper made from hard paste porcelain, thrown and moudled, and painted overglaze in blue, bluish-green, red, yellowish-brown, and black enamels in Kakiemon style.
The ewer stands on a footring. It has a globular body with facetted sides, a tall cylindrical neck with projecting rim, a tall slightly curved spout, and an S-shaped handle with an upper dragon's head terminal. One side of the body is decorated with a large rock with branches of flowers and foliage on each side of it. The other side has a smaller rock and one branch of flowers and foliage on the right and two sprigs on the left.
The domed stopper is striped in red and has reversed gadrooning radiating from a pierced ball finial, the top of which is also red.
The base has 'Kakiemon' in running script, in undeglaze in blue.

Legal notes

On loan from Sir John Boyd

Measurements and weight

Height: 22.2 cm
Width: 15.8 cm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.