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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 143, The Timothy Sainsbury Gallery

Ewer

700-900 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This ewer was held horizontally and dipped three times into dark brown glaze. Small runs of glaze show how the ewer was turned between each dip.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware with applied reliefs and yellowish glaze over slip
Brief description
Ewer, stoneware with applied reliefs and yellowish glaze over slip and dipped areas of dark brown glazes, China (Hunan province), Tang dynasty, 700-900
Physical description
Ewer of buff stoneware, with applied reliefs and yellowish glaze over slip, with dipped areas of dark brown glaze. Globular with wide foot, short narrow neck, two small loop handles on the shoulders for suspension and a short faceted spout; the neck and spout cut down, a third larger handle missing. Decorated below the handles and spout with applied reliefs respectively of a figure in a dress ornamented with scrolls and carrying a drum, the other standing on a wheel and carrying a dish on his hand; below the spout, a quatrefoil shaped panel filled with crosshatching supported by two birds with scrolled feathers, under a large knot.
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.5cm
  • Diameter: 8.6cm
Style
Gallery label
Ewer with dipped areas of dark glaze, Stoneware, with applied reliefs and cut-down neck and spout(2009)
Subjects depicted
Summary
This ewer was held horizontally and dipped three times into dark brown glaze. Small runs of glaze show how the ewer was turned between each dip.
Bibliographic reference
Ayers, John. Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1980, Monochrome Plate No. 65
Collection
Accession number
C.570-1919

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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