IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 16151 accession number: C.61 & A-1984 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Gourd-shaped ewer and cover. Stoneware, thrown, with parts attached, incised and celadon-glazed. This ewer has a gourd-shaped body with flat base, a curved spout and a handle twisted of three strands. The domed cover is of flower-shaped outline. The body of the ewer is intersected by six vertical incised lines, a lotus leaf and stem are delicately incised on the spout, and the cover is similarly incised with the veins of a lotus leaf. The fine clay body is thinly covered with a glossy transparent jade-green glaze. The base is free of glaze and shows traces of fire-clay spurs, and remains of the saggar in which it was fired adhere to the glaze around it. title: ewer NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Gompertz Collection creditline: Gompertz Gift STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/16151 SUBJECTS ------------------- lotus lotus TECHNIQUES ---------- stoneware, thrown, with parts attached, incised and celadon-glazed throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: celadon DATING ------ creation date: 1100 - 1200 creation date earliest: 1100 creation date latest: 1200 culture: 12th Century culture: Koryo Dynasty CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 28.8 CITATIONS -------- Koryo Pottery Hsu Ching's Visit to Korea in 1123 Korean Celadon and Other Wares of the Koryo Period Korean Ceramics Korean Art from the Gompertz and Other Collections in the Fitzwilliam Museum, A Complete Catalogue --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_61_26A_1984.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 586 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_61_26A_1984.jpg height: 648 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_61_26A_1984.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 586 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_61_26A_1984.jpg height: 324 pixels width: 250 pixels