Dish
13th century-14th century (made)
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Dish of grey stoneware with pale-green glaze. Flat with splayed, rising rim, and standing on its slightly concave base. Inside is rough pattern of combed zigzags. The glaze is glassy with crackle lines. The middle-grey ware is compact and resonant.
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Materials and techniques | Stoneware with combed decoration under celadon glaze |
Brief description | Longquan ware. Dish, stoneware with combed design under celadon glaze; excavated in the Philippines, made in China (Zhejiang province), Yuan dynasty, 13th-14th century |
Physical description | Dish of grey stoneware with pale-green glaze. Flat with splayed, rising rim, and standing on its slightly concave base. Inside is rough pattern of combed zigzags. The glaze is glassy with crackle lines. The middle-grey ware is compact and resonant. |
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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. |
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Accession number | FE.43-1975 |
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Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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