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Potter: Unknown
Octagonal bottle with crane and bamboo. Porcelain, thrown, shaped, painted in cobalt-blue and glazed. The tall neck has a projecting rim and spreads towards the pear-shaped body. The bottle is painted in underglaze blue with a large flying crane and with a clump of bamboo on the reverse. The glaze is greyish-white and the body heavy and thick. The foot is outlined with a single blue line and the footring shows traces of fine sand from the support.
History note: Unknown before Frank Brangwyn, RA
Bought with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 31.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1934) by Brangwyn Collection
19th Century
Choson Dynasty (1392 - 1910)
Circa
1850
-
1900
Such faceted bottles were first made in the eighteenth century (see Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol.19, 1980, pls.166-170) and were widely used as wine bottles; this tradition continued into the nineteenth century and the colours of the cobalt and the greyish-white glaze, the way the crane is painted, as well as the deeply-cut footring all identify this bottle as a product of the second half of the nineteenth century. For sherds of blue-and-white porcelain of the nineteenth century found at Punwon-ri see ibid. pl.239.
Decoration
composed of
glaze
Foot
Diameter 10.4 cm
Rim
Diameter 4.5 cm
Throwing
: Porcelain, thrown, shaped, painted in cobalt-blue, and glazed
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.353-1934
Primary reference Number: 16527
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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