Cup
late 15th century (made)
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A small cup of rather tall, slender shape with straight sides rounded below and everted at the lip, which is thinly potted; thin footring. Painted under the crazed glaze is a band of leafy 'classic scroll' with chevron-and-floret border below the lip and sketchy 'lotus panels' round the foot.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue |
| Brief description | Cup, porcelain painted in underglaze blue; China (Jingdezhen), Ming dynasty, late 15th century |
| Physical description | A small cup of rather tall, slender shape with straight sides rounded below and everted at the lip, which is thinly potted; thin footring. Painted under the crazed glaze is a band of leafy 'classic scroll' with chevron-and-floret border below the lip and sketchy 'lotus panels' round the foot. |
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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 | label |
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| Accession number | FE.35-1975 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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