Bowl
1600-1700 (made)
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Bowl with sides roughly rounded below and curving outward, thickly potted; the strongly square-cut footring carelessly finished. The light grey paste contains grit and the outside shows marks of turning. The semi-opaque glaze is much crazed, and finishes untidily around the foot; the base in unglazed. Lightly incised round the outside with a blunt tool is a band of lotus petals. The central area inside is depressed.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Stoneware with incised decoration under celadon glaze |
| Brief description | Bowl, stoneware with incised decoration under celadon glaze; excavated in the Philippines, made in China, 13th-14th century |
| Physical description | Bowl with sides roughly rounded below and curving outward, thickly potted; the strongly square-cut footring carelessly finished. The light grey paste contains grit and the outside shows marks of turning. The semi-opaque glaze is much crazed, and finishes untidily around the foot; the base in unglazed. Lightly incised round the outside with a blunt tool is a band of lotus petals. The central area inside is depressed. |
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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. |
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| Accession number | FE.38-1975 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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