Vase

Museum number:
9-12624
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090012624
Alternate number:
3821 (previous number (Design Dept.))
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Bottle, porcelaineous; globular bottle with tall, very narrow neck. Short foot. Underglaze blue decoration on a mottled cream and brown, crackled ground. Glossy surface. Free brushed decoration depicts a landscape with mountains, pine and willow trees, and Chinese building. Rim chipped and mended with gold. A few firing pits in surface. Probably used to contain oil or wine.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan
Collector:
Albert M. Bender
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Porcelain (visual works)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-12624, described as Bottle, porcelaineous; globular bottle with tall, very narrow neck. Short foot. Underglaze blue decoration on a mottled cream and brown, crackled ground. Glossy surface. Free brushed decoration depicts a landscape with mountains, pine and willow trees, and Chinese building. Rim chipped and mended with gold. A few firing pits in surface. Probably used to contain oil or wine.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-12624, described as Bottle, porcelaineous; globular bottle with tall, very narrow neck. Short foot. Underglaze blue decoration on a mottled cream and brown, crackled ground. Glossy surface. Free brushed decoration depicts a landscape with mountains, pine and willow trees, and Chinese building. Rim chipped and mended with gold. A few firing pits in surface. Probably used to contain oil or wine.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-12624, described as Bottle, porcelaineous; globular bottle with tall, very narrow neck. Short foot. Underglaze blue decoration on a mottled cream and brown, crackled ground. Glossy surface. Free brushed decoration depicts a landscape with mountains, pine and willow trees, and Chinese building. Rim chipped and mended with gold. A few firing pits in surface. Probably used to contain oil or wine.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-12624, described as Bottle, porcelaineous; globular bottle with tall, very narrow neck. Short foot. Underglaze blue decoration on a mottled cream and brown, crackled ground. Glossy surface. Free brushed decoration depicts a landscape with mountains, pine and willow trees, and Chinese building. Rim chipped and mended with gold. A few firing pits in surface. Probably used to contain oil or wine.

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