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Tanji
Pottery: Unknown
Pickle jar with peony. Porcelain, thrown, painted in cobalt-blue and glazed. This pickle jar, or tanji, has a wide, slightly everted neck, a globular body and a short foot. Around the shoulder is a youi-head border and the main area of the body is painted in bright cobalt-blue with two peony sprays in full bloom. Both neck and foot are encircled by blue lines. The footring is deep and shows traces of fine sand from the firing support. The body is thick and the piece is covered with a pale bluish-white glaze. This piece was inscribed after firing; the inscription, engraved in dots above the foot reads musin sa nyoon kogan tae tyung syo idyuk, which may be translated as "made in the fourth year, musin for storage, [in] large, medium and small [sizes]". The cyclical year musin recorded in the inscription corresponds here probably to the year 1868.
History note: Unknown before donor
Gompertz Gift
Method of acquisition: Given (1984) by Gompertz, G. St. G. M., Mr and Mrs
19th Century
Choson Dynasty (1392 - 1910)
Circa
1850
-
1900
Usually, pickle jars of this type were made in three sizes, of which this is the medium size. They were used in the kitchen or placed on the rice chest (twiju); they could be stacked, one on top of the other, and were sealed with paper covers.
Decoration
composed of
glaze
Jar
composed of
porcelain
Height 14.4 cm
Foot
Diameter 8.8 cm
Rim
Diameter 9.0 cm
Inscription present: in characters
Accession number: C.442-1984
Primary reference Number: 16486
Box number: 88
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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