IDENTIFIERS
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id:	16481
accession number:	C.443-1984

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 11 August 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Hexagonal bottle with flowers design. Porcelain, thrown, painted in cobalt-blue and glazed. This hexagonal bottle has a long neck with slightly flaring mouth and a wide body which tapers towards the base; the footring is angular. The neck is painted on either end with key-fret borders, the shoulder with a band of lotus petals,  and the six sides of the body with sprays of chrysanthemum, prunus, finger citron, camellia, peach and pomegranate. The cobalt painting is of light blue tone, the glaze is tinged with blue and evenly applied.  The footring was placed on a sandy support during firing. On the base the character mok  ('tree') was engraved in dots into the glaze after firing.
title:	bottle

NOTES
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type: history note
value: unknown before donor


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Gompertz Collection
creditline: Gompertz Gift

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/16481


SUBJECTS
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chrysanthemum
lotus petal
camellia
peach
pomegranate
prunus
finger citron
chrysanthemum
lotus petal
camellia
peach
pomegranate
prunus
finger citron



TECHNIQUES
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porcelain, thrown, painted in cobalt-blue, and glazed
throwing
TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1850
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1850
culture:	19th Century
culture:	Choson Dynasty (1392 - 1910)

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 17.2



CITATIONS
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Korean Pottery and Porcelain of the Yi Period
La Collection Gompertz au Musée Fitzwilliam de Louvre de Cambridge
Korean Art from the Gompertz and Other Collections in the Fitzwilliam Museum, A Complete Catalogue
Richo
Horim Misulgwan Sojangp'um Sonjip
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