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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Vase

25-220 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Vase of bronze form, with high, everting foot, globular body and tall neck. Made of coarse grey stoneware, with scorch marks and glaze shadows visible at places on the foot and lower body. The surface is weathered, probably from burial. Decorated with two sketchy bands of incised pointed and rounded, upright, leaf or petal bands, between incised circles.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware with remanats of ash glaze
Brief description
Vase, stoneware with remnants of ash glaze; China, Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25-220)
Physical description
Vase of bronze form, with high, everting foot, globular body and tall neck. Made of coarse grey stoneware, with scorch marks and glaze shadows visible at places on the foot and lower body. The surface is weathered, probably from burial. Decorated with two sketchy bands of incised pointed and rounded, upright, leaf or petal bands, between incised circles.
Dimensions
  • Height: 23.4cm
Style
Credit line
Given by Mr P.H.D.S. Wikramaratna in memory of his wife Nancy
Collection
Accession number
FE.17-1989

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Record createdMarch 15, 2007
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