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

Jar

14th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Jarlet, globular, with short neck and rolled lip; small concave base. In moulded relief round the shoulder is a scaly four-clawed dragon chasing a pearl, and below, a sea of waves.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware with moulded relief decoration under celadon glaze
Brief description
Longquan ware. Jarlet, stoneware with moulded relief decoration under celadon glaze; excavated in the Philippines, made in China (Zhejiang province), Yuan dynasty, 14th century
Physical description
Jarlet, globular, with short neck and rolled lip; small concave base. In moulded relief round the shoulder is a scaly four-clawed dragon chasing a pearl, and below, a sea of waves.
Dimensions
  • Height: 5.1cm
Styles
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
Register
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
FE.56-1975

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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