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Lidded box
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Lidded box
- Place of origin:
Fujian, China (made)
- Date:
ca. 13th century (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown (production)
- Materials and Techniques:
Porcelain with moulded decoration and green lead glaze
- Credit Line:
Given by John Ayers
- Museum number:
FE.1:1, 2-2001
- Gallery location:
On Display
Physical description
Small box with lid and moulded decoration. Made of greyish porcelain containing iron specks and impurities; the round form is slightly irregular. Inside base and lid the glaze is clear. The outside of the base including the foot-ring has a shiny green lead glaze. The outside of the lid also bears green lead glaze that is paler in colour and dull, and the tortoise in the centre is left unglazed. The box has a moulded design of a central tortoise surrounded by a serpent (symbolising the direction north) with waterweed and a crab round the edge.
Place of Origin
Fujian, China (made)
Date
ca. 13th century (made)
Artist/maker
Unknown (production)
Materials and Techniques
Porcelain with moulded decoration and green lead glaze
Dimensions
Height: 5.5 cm, Width: 6.4 cm box, Width: 4 cm foot
Descriptive line
Box with lid, porcelain with moulded decoration of a tortoise, snake, crayfish and crab under a green lead glaze; Fujian province, South China, Southern Song-Yuan Dynasty, ca. 13th century.
Materials
Porcelain; Lead glaze
Techniques
Glazed; Moulded
Subjects depicted
Serpents; Tortoise; Crabs
Categories
Porcelain; Containers; Ceramics
Collection code
EAS
