Bowl
late 13th century-early 14th century (made)
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Bowl with globular lower section and broad, barely tapering neck to a wide mouth with rolled-out rim. A shallow ring foot has been carved out of the base. The decoration carved out of the body is of linear patterns in 'guri' lacquerwork style, subsequently painted over with caramel-brown glaze; and the same glaze covers the inside. The body is grey with creamy inclusions. Below the lip is a band of sloping meander above a broader one of classic scroll.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Stoneware with carved decoration under the glaze |
| Brief description | Cizhou-type ware. Bowl, stoneware with carved decoration under brown glaze; China (Jizhou, Jiangxi province), Yuan dynasty, late 13th-early 14th century |
| Physical description | Bowl with globular lower section and broad, barely tapering neck to a wide mouth with rolled-out rim. A shallow ring foot has been carved out of the base. The decoration carved out of the body is of linear patterns in 'guri' lacquerwork style, subsequently painted over with caramel-brown glaze; and the same glaze covers the inside. The body is grey with creamy inclusions. Below the lip is a band of sloping meander above a broader one of classic scroll. |
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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 | Jizhou, Jiangxi province (register) |
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| Accession number | FE.37-1975 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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