Bowl
1700-1900 (made)
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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.
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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. |
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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 |
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Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935-6, London : Royal Academy of Arts, 1935
1227 |
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Accession number | C.20-1948 |
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Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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