Pottery: Unknown
Bowl with cranes and clouds. Stoneware, thrown, inlaid in black and white slip and celadon-glazed. This shallow rounded bowl has a low footring. The inside is inlaid with a pair of cranes with entwined necks forming a medallion, enclosed by a youi-head border and surrounded by six cranes in flight among clouds and a classic-scroll rim border, all inlaid in white with a few details in black slip. The outside is decorated with four peony-spray medallions within a broad border of scrollwork which is reserved against a background of inlaid black slip, enclosed between a classic-scroll rim border and a petal border below. The base shows traces of three quartzite spurs, the rim has gilt repairs.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 6.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Koryo Dynasty
12th Century
Circa
1150
-
1200
Decoration
composed of
slip
( black and white)
Glaze
composed of
celadon glaze
Rim
Diameter 19.5 cm
Foot
Diameter 6.7 cm
Throwing
: Stoneware, thrown, inlaid in black and white slip and celadon-glazed
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.400-1991
Primary reference Number: 16296
Packing number: CHICER 804
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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