IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 138719 accession number: ML.14A-1992 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 27 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: One of a pair of porcelain stem bowls, with an ivory white glaze. The bow is of a hemispherical form, standing on a low narrow foot. The rim has six indentations and the interior of the bowl has six vertical ribs, creating the effect of a flower. On the exterior there is an incised horizontal band below the rim, and six short vertical lines corresponding to the interior ribs. Ding ware. In a rectangular presentation box, covered on the exterior with dark blue leather, with a gold border on the top of the lid and along the upper edge of the box and interior edge of the lid. The interior of the lid is lined with white silk and the lower part is fitted and lined with royal blue silk and velvet. The top of the lid bears a rectangular brass plaque engraved with the inscription: 'To Mr Dugald Malcolm, vice marshal of the diplomatic corps 1957-65. From the heads of the mission in London' With two labels. One is circular, printed in black 'John Sparks ltd 128 Mount Street. W'. Another is printed in black with a tower and 'Malcolm Collection' and inscribed 'D a/124'. title: bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Dugald Malcolm LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: On loan from Helen H. L. Whittow (nee Malcolm) STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/138719 TECHNIQUES ---------- indenting TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- incising CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1000 - 1127 creation date earliest: 1000 creation date latest: 1127 culture: Northern Song (960-1127) culture: 11th-12th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 10.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.5 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/565/935/large_ML_14A_1992_ML_14B_1992_1_201605_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 779 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/565/935/mid_ML_14A_1992_ML_14B_1992_1_201605_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 380 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ML.14A-1992_ML.14B-1992_1_201605_amt49_dc2.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/565/935/preview_ML_14A_1992_ML_14B_1992_1_201605_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 190 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/566/53/large_ML_14A_1992_ML_14B_1992_1_201605_amt49_mas.jpg height: 779 pixels width: 1023 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/566/53/mid_ML_14A_1992_ML_14B_1992_1_201605_amt49_mas.jpg height: 381 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ML.14A-1992_ML.14B-1992_1_201605_amt49_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/566/53/preview_ML_14A_1992_ML_14B_1992_1_201605_amt49_mas.jpg height: 190 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/566/53/ML_14A_1992_ML_14B_1992_1_201605_amt49_mas.ptif height: 4872 pixels width: 6401 pixels