Wine Cup
early 14th century (made)
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Wine cup of porcelain with qingbai glaze. With upright sides rounded below and broad flat base. Moulded in one piece with decoration on the outside of a continuous leafy scroll below an incised line, and a double row of pointed leaves at the foot. The mouth rim is left unglazed, and so is the base. Milky bluish-white glaze.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain with moulded relief decoration under the glaze |
| Brief description | Qingbai ware. Wine cup, porcelain with moulded relief decoration under qingbai glaze; excavated in the Philippines, made in China (possibly Jiangxi province), Yuan dynasty, early 14th century |
| Physical description | Wine cup of porcelain with qingbai glaze. With upright sides rounded below and broad flat base. Moulded in one piece with decoration on the outside of a continuous leafy scroll below an incised line, and a double row of pointed leaves at the foot. The mouth rim is left unglazed, and so is the base. Milky bluish-white glaze. |
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| Credit line | Given by Sir John Addis KCMG |
| Object history | The group of objects (FE.3 to 105-1975) were all acquired by Sir John Addis during his stay in Manila as British Ambassador, ca. 1965-70, and are purportedly from excavations there. See papers published at the Manila Trade Pottery Seminiar, 1968, here noted; also Locsin, L & C, Oriental Ceramics discovered in the Philippines, Rutland & Tokyo 1968; and Addis, J. M. Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1967-69 London : The Society, pp. 17-36. |
| Production | Register |
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| Accession number | FE.88-1975 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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