Container

Museum number:
9-14609
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090014609
Alternate number:
3160 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.05
Description:
Brazier, cast bronze, with relief decoration, and ceramic insulted bottom: slightly reces ed cylindrical top, narrow rim flange, lower half of sides curve intorecessed foot. 2 'T' shaped handles on opposite slides near rim: 2 panels on side, each with depiction of 2 men playing shittlecock (?) on low relief 'cloud' fret pattern. Bottom filled with fried clay 3 centimeters deep, with 2 deep crossed grooves on bottom. UCDA file card states entire bottom restored height 16 centimeters, max diameter 23 centimeters.
Donor:
Anita Day Symmes Blake, Anson Stiles Blake, and Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
China
Collector:
Anson Stiles Blake
Collection date:
Pre- 1962
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Containers (receptacles)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Container, accession number 9-14609, described as Brazier, cast bronze, with relief decoration, and ceramic insulted bottom: slightly reces ed cylindrical top, narrow rim flange, lower half of sides curve intorecessed foot. 2 'T' shaped handles on opposite slides near rim: 2 panels on side, each with depiction of 2 men playing shittlecock (?) on low relief 'cloud' fret pattern. Bottom filled with fried clay 3 centimeters deep, with 2 deep crossed grooves on bottom. UCDA file card states entire bottom restored height 16 centimeters, max diameter 23 centimeters.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Container, accession number 9-14609, described as Brazier, cast bronze, with relief decoration, and ceramic insulted bottom: slightly reces ed cylindrical top, narrow rim flange, lower half of sides curve intorecessed foot. 2 'T' shaped handles on opposite slides near rim: 2 panels on side, each with depiction of 2 men playing shittlecock (?) on low relief 'cloud' fret pattern. Bottom filled with fried clay 3 centimeters deep, with 2 deep crossed grooves on bottom. UCDA file card states entire bottom restored height 16 centimeters, max diameter 23 centimeters.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Container, accession number 9-14609, described as Brazier, cast bronze, with relief decoration, and ceramic insulted bottom: slightly reces ed cylindrical top, narrow rim flange, lower half of sides curve intorecessed foot. 2 'T' shaped handles on opposite slides near rim: 2 panels on side, each with depiction of 2 men playing shittlecock (?) on low relief 'cloud' fret pattern. Bottom filled with fried clay 3 centimeters deep, with 2 deep crossed grooves on bottom. UCDA file card states entire bottom restored height 16 centimeters, max diameter 23 centimeters.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Container, accession number 9-14609, described as Brazier, cast bronze, with relief decoration, and ceramic insulted bottom: slightly reces ed cylindrical top, narrow rim flange, lower half of sides curve intorecessed foot. 2 'T' shaped handles on opposite slides near rim: 2 panels on side, each with depiction of 2 men playing shittlecock (?) on low relief 'cloud' fret pattern. Bottom filled with fried clay 3 centimeters deep, with 2 deep crossed grooves on bottom. UCDA file card states entire bottom restored height 16 centimeters, max diameter 23 centimeters.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Container, accession number 9-14609, described as Brazier, cast bronze, with relief decoration, and ceramic insulted bottom: slightly reces ed cylindrical top, narrow rim flange, lower half of sides curve intorecessed foot. 2 'T' shaped handles on opposite slides near rim: 2 panels on side, each with depiction of 2 men playing shittlecock (?) on low relief 'cloud' fret pattern. Bottom filled with fried clay 3 centimeters deep, with 2 deep crossed grooves on bottom. UCDA file card states entire bottom restored height 16 centimeters, max diameter 23 centimeters.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Container, accession number 9-14609, described as Brazier, cast bronze, with relief decoration, and ceramic insulted bottom: slightly reces ed cylindrical top, narrow rim flange, lower half of sides curve intorecessed foot. 2 'T' shaped handles on opposite slides near rim: 2 panels on side, each with depiction of 2 men playing shittlecock (?) on low relief 'cloud' fret pattern. Bottom filled with fried clay 3 centimeters deep, with 2 deep crossed grooves on bottom. UCDA file card states entire bottom restored height 16 centimeters, max diameter 23 centimeters.

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