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

Vase

907-1125 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Vase of stoneware, slender and baluster-shaped, with a rather square shoulder and narrow rib collar, from which springs a short tapering neck with wheel-rings and roughly modelled ram's heads, spreading to a cup-shaped mouth. The base is hollowed out to leave a shallow foot-ring. The glaze covers only the top half of the vase and inside of the mouth. The lip is ground clean.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware with green lead glaze over a white slip
Brief description
Vase, stoneware with green lead glaze over a white slip, north China, Liao dynasty (907-1125)
Physical description
Vase of stoneware, slender and baluster-shaped, with a rather square shoulder and narrow rib collar, from which springs a short tapering neck with wheel-rings and roughly modelled ram's heads, spreading to a cup-shaped mouth. The base is hollowed out to leave a shallow foot-ring. The glaze covers only the top half of the vase and inside of the mouth. The lip is ground clean.
Dimensions
  • Height: 32.4cm
Style
Collection
Accession number
C.334-1951

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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