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Vase: ML.12-1992

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

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Description

Hand built dark grey stoneware vase with incised decoration. The globular body has a rounded base and straight sided flaring neck. The lower part of the body is decorated with faint impressed diagonal lines inclined in different directions. The upper part of the body and neck are smooth. The upper part of the body is decorated with a pair of incised horizontal lines between groups of close set wavy lines. On the neck there is a horizontal line, a group of close set wavy lines, three horizontal lines, and two horizontal lines between groups of close set wavy lines.

There is a repair in the rim, and two dark shiny splodges over it

Legal notes

Lent to the museum by Helen H. L. Whittow (nee Malcolm)

Measurements and weight

Height: 22 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Loan (1992) by Whittow, Helen H. L. (nee Malcolm)

Dating

Paekche Kingdom
-0018 BCE - 663 CE

Materials used in production

Stoneware

Techniques used in production

Impressing
Incising

Identification numbers

Accession number: ML.12-1992
Primary reference Number: 138717
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 27 January 2023 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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