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

Bowl

1700-1900 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Bowl of porcellaneous stoneware, with a finely crackled colourless glaze over a white slip. Almost straight sides curving in to a high hollow foot; slightly everted rim. Decoration consists of two parallel light brown lines running round the inside of the lip, and on the outside of two similar lines and of two fishes separated by sprays of leaves, rendered in brown pigment.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware, painted, incised, glazed
Brief description
Cizhou-type ware. Bowl, stoneware with painted and incised decoration on a cream ground; China, Qing dynasty
Physical description
Bowl of porcellaneous stoneware, with a finely crackled colourless glaze over a white slip. Almost straight sides curving in to a high hollow foot; slightly everted rim. Decoration consists of two parallel light brown lines running round the inside of the lip, and on the outside of two similar lines and of two fishes separated by sprays of leaves, rendered in brown pigment.
Dimensions
  • Height: 15.2cm
  • Diameter: 26cm
Styles
Object history
Bought from the C. L. Rutherston Collection (No. 58 in the Catalogue of Rutherston Collection of Old Chinese Works of Art, Bluett & Sons, 1948).
Production
from label
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935-6, London : Royal Academy of Arts, 1935 1227
Collection
Accession number
C.20-1948

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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