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Pottery: Unknown
Pipe rest with openwork decoration. Porcelain, slab-built, pierced, with parts attached, painted in cobalt-blue and glazed. The cubical body has openwork designs of leaves on three sides and a rounded trefoil opening on the fourth, to receive the bowl of a long Korean pipe. Two 'chimneys' are attached to the top, which is also pierced, one in form of a short cylinder, the other in the shape of a freely-modelled lizard with open mouth. The base is flat. Cobalt-blue in light and dark tones is effectively used to indicate the veins of the leaves and to highlight other parts of the pierced and attached decoration. The bluish-white glaze is thickly applied.
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
1800
-
1850
Few such pipe rests are extant. Tobacco had been introduced to Korea in the seventeenth century, but became really popular only in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Decoration
composed of
glaze
Pipe Rest
composed of
porcelain
Height 8.5 cm
Width 6.1 cm
Width 6.6 cm
Accession number: C.91-1984
Primary reference Number: 16502
Old object number: P
Box number: 96
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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