Lidded Box
ca. 13th century (made)
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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.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain with moulded decoration and green lead glaze |
| Brief description | 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. |
| 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. |
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| Credit line | Given by John Ayers |
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| Accession number | FE.1:1, 2-2001 |
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| Record created | May 23, 2002 |
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