Bottle

Museum number:
9-12653
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090012653
Alternate number:
UCDA 1566 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Oil bottle; stoneware, tear-drop shape, wide mouth rim on constricted neck, narrow foot covered with coarse sand particles, chip out of foot, shiny glaze that is rust brown where thick, green where thin, slip (?) underneath glaze, two incised bands on upper body, 4 7/8” (11.8 cm) diameter, 8 5/8” (21.8 cm) high.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Korea
Verbatim coll. place:
Korea
Collector:
George H. Kerr
Collection date:
before 1957
Materials:
Clay and Glaze (coating by location)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bottles and Stoneware (pottery)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1974
Context of use:
oil bottle, Yi period (1392-1910)
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
diameter 11.8 centimeters and height 21.8 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 9-12653, described as Oil bottle; stoneware, tear-drop shape, wide mouth rim on constricted neck, narrow foot covered with coarse sand particles, chip out of foot, shiny glaze that is rust brown where thick, green where thin, slip (?) underneath glaze, two incised bands on upper body, 4 7/8” (11.8 cm) diameter, 8 5/8” (21.8 cm) high.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 9-12653, described as Oil bottle; stoneware, tear-drop shape, wide mouth rim on constricted neck, narrow foot covered with coarse sand particles, chip out of foot, shiny glaze that is rust brown where thick, green where thin, slip (?) underneath glaze, two incised bands on upper body, 4 7/8” (11.8 cm) diameter, 8 5/8” (21.8 cm) high.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 9-12653, described as Oil bottle; stoneware, tear-drop shape, wide mouth rim on constricted neck, narrow foot covered with coarse sand particles, chip out of foot, shiny glaze that is rust brown where thick, green where thin, slip (?) underneath glaze, two incised bands on upper body, 4 7/8” (11.8 cm) diameter, 8 5/8” (21.8 cm) high.

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