CM95a,b (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4796
Object count:
2
Description:
Tall tea or coffee pot. Decorated with color lithograph of landscape with bus, thick pines, and Revolutionary monument to martyrs at Jingang Mountain, Jiangxi Province (this identification by Pan Gang). The stele is said to be taller than the one in Tiananmen Square. Gold bowstring around rim, spout, and lid as well as gold line on integrated handle. Lemon-yellow band around collar. Small landscape on back shows three figures with red flag standing on bridge. Lower quarter of pot tapers in and is fluted (cf. the train cup CM67 w/ similar detailing). Each item in the set (teapot, cups and saucers catalogued below) has a different seal at lower right of picture. Rather than the name of the site, they are the names of individual craftsmen: Ciping 茨坪, Heshu 荷樹, Mi Shachong 米砂沖.
Donor:
Alfreda Murck
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
Baoguosi Market, Beijing, China
Production place:
Jiangxi province, Southern China and Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Alfreda Murck
Collection date:
February 13, 2004
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowstrings
Function:
1.5 Household
Production date:
1980s
Accession date:
February 19, 2016
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
height 18.3 centimeters
Comment:
Inscription: Seal on foot, in script “Made in China” with red pavilion and Jingdezhen.