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

Vase

960-1127 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Vase of high-fired stoneware, inverted pear-shaped with short neck. Carved with bands of lotus petals radiating downwards from the shoulder, under a crackled celadon-green glaze.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware with carved decoration under celadon glaze
Brief description
Vase, high fired stoneware with carved decoration under celadon glaze, China
Physical description
Vase of high-fired stoneware, inverted pear-shaped with short neck. Carved with bands of lotus petals radiating downwards from the shoulder, under a crackled celadon-green glaze.
Dimensions
  • Height: 21.9cm
  • Diameter: 14.3cm
Style
Object history
Formerly in the collection of A. L. Hetherington.
Production
label
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.1-1925

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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