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Pottery: Unknown
Water dropper in the shape of a house. Porcelain, slab-built, incised, painted in iron-brown and copper-red, and glazed. This water dropper in the form of an L-shaped house also has the form of the first character in the han'gul script (the consonant K, which looks like an inverted capital L). It is finely incised with doors, windows and roof tiles, and the character pok (happiness) is inscribed in decorative script on one end. Two holes, one in the roof on the inner corner and the other below on the outer corner, allow water to be filled in and poured out. The roof is coloured in underglaze iron-brown and the sides are painted with 'pillars' in copper-red. A greyish-white glaze is tinged with blue and covers the whole piece except for the base, which shows traces of a firing support.
History note: Unknown before donor
Gompertz Gift
Height: 4.2 cm
Width: 5.8 cm
Width: 6.4 cm
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.
Method of acquisition: Given (1984) by Gompertz, G. St. G. M., Mr and Mrs
19th century
Choson Dynasty (1392 - 1910)
Circa
1800
-
1900
Decoration composed of glaze
Slab-building
: Porcelain, slab-built, incised, painted in iron-brown and copper-red and glazed
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.89-1984
Primary reference Number: 16517
Old object number: N
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022) "Water dropper" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/16517 Accessed: 2022-10-07 00:59:44
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Accession Number: O.1-2010
Accession Number: O.10-1938
Accession Number: OC.63A-1938
Accession Number: OC.63B-1938
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