IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 16465 accession number: C.440-1984 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bottle with tortoise, deer and crane design. Porcelain, thrown, painted in cobalt-blue and glazed. This typical nineteenth-century wine bottle is painted in light underglaze blue with some of the `ten motifs of long life' (sipchangsaeng) including tortoise, deer and crane, pine tree, pulloch'o fungus, bamboo, rock and clouds. The glaze has a pale bluish tinge and is crackled at and around the base. Traces of fine fire-clay supports are remaining on the footring. title: bottle NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Gompertz Collection creditline: Gompertz Gift STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/16465 SUBJECTS ------------------- deer tortoise crane deer tortoise crane TECHNIQUES ---------- porcelain, thrown, painted in cobalt-blue, and glazed throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century culture: Choson Dynasty (1392 - 1910) CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 26 CITATIONS -------- La Civilta Korean Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Period Korean Art from the Gompertz and Other Collections in the Fitzwilliam Museum, A Complete Catalogue Richo ---