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Porcelaneous stoneware bulb bowl, on a flower pot stand. With shallow bowl of six-foil shape with lobed sides and flat rim with raised edge. Three feet of cloud scroll form. Grey porcelaneous ware. Glaze on the outside and rim is plum purple, finely dappled with grey.
Inside, the glaze is lavender frosted with green, and showing Y shaped earth worm marks.
A ring of spur marks in the brown glaze under the base, and the incised numeral oa (eight).
History note: Richard Bennett Collection; Eumorfopoulos Collection; sold in Eumorfopoulos Sale. Sotherby’s May 29th 1940 Lot 190; Bluett & Sons, 48 Davies Street, Brook Street, London, W1 by whom sold for £240 to the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Diameter: 20.4 cm
Height: 6.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1940-05-16) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Song Dynasty#
960
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1279
Accession number: OC.14-1940
Primary reference Number: 77568
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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