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Bottle-shaped vase. Stoneware, covered with a cream slip and a crackled, bluish glaze encrusted with red dirt, with incised decoration. The vase has a long, slender neck, flattened mouth rim and scroll handles. The rounded body of the vase tapers to a flared footrim, with deep, recessed, uneven base encrusted with red dirt. A band of moulded phoenixes (Peng-Huang) circles the body with a band of incised lotus leaves beneath.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Diameter: 8.6 cm
Height: 15.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Northern Song (960-1127)
Circa
960
-
1127
Probably Fujian in imitation of Ding ware.
Decoration
Throwing
: Stoneware, thrown, covered with slip and glazed, with moulded and incised decoration
Slip-coating
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.635B-1991
Primary reference Number: 20991
Old object number: CHICER/116(3)
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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