Vase

Museum number:
9-12684
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090012684
Alternate number:
3165 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.05
Description:
China. Vase, porcelain; bottle shaped vase with 'mirror black' glaze. Bulbous ovoid belly, long, narrow cylindrical neck; inside of foot ring glazed white except rim. The exterior glaze is deep glossy black, narrow band of chocolate brown below rim of mouth. Glaze-runoff has been filed off foot rim. Interior is white. Neck has been broken and mended with piece missing. Some 'pinholes' in glaze near base. Height 21.8 centimeters, max diameter 12.5 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
Materials:
Glaze (coating by location)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Vases
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Vase, accession number 9-12684, described as China. Vase, porcelain; bottle shaped vase with 'mirror black' glaze. Bulbous ovoid belly, long, narrow cylindrical neck; inside of foot ring glazed white except rim. The exterior glaze is deep glossy black, narrow band of chocolate brown below rim of mouth. Glaze-runoff has been filed off foot rim. Interior is white. Neck has been broken and mended with piece missing. Some 'pinholes' in glaze near base. Height 21.8 centimeters, max diameter 12.5 centimeters.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Vase, accession number 9-12684, described as China. Vase, porcelain; bottle shaped vase with 'mirror black' glaze. Bulbous ovoid belly, long, narrow cylindrical neck; inside of foot ring glazed white except rim. The exterior glaze is deep glossy black, narrow band of chocolate brown below rim of mouth. Glaze-runoff has been filed off foot rim. Interior is white. Neck has been broken and mended with piece missing. Some 'pinholes' in glaze near base. Height 21.8 centimeters, max diameter 12.5 centimeters.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-12684, described as China. Vase, porcelain; bottle shaped vase with 'mirror black' glaze. Bulbous ovoid belly, long, narrow cylindrical neck; inside of foot ring glazed white except rim. The exterior glaze is deep glossy black, narrow band of chocolate brown below rim of mouth. Glaze-runoff has been filed off foot rim. Interior is white. Neck has been broken and mended with piece missing. Some 'pinholes' in glaze near base. Height 21.8 centimeters, max diameter 12.5 centimeters.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-12684, described as China. Vase, porcelain; bottle shaped vase with 'mirror black' glaze. Bulbous ovoid belly, long, narrow cylindrical neck; inside of foot ring glazed white except rim. The exterior glaze is deep glossy black, narrow band of chocolate brown below rim of mouth. Glaze-runoff has been filed off foot rim. Interior is white. Neck has been broken and mended with piece missing. Some 'pinholes' in glaze near base. Height 21.8 centimeters, max diameter 12.5 centimeters.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-12684, described as China. Vase, porcelain; bottle shaped vase with 'mirror black' glaze. Bulbous ovoid belly, long, narrow cylindrical neck; inside of foot ring glazed white except rim. The exterior glaze is deep glossy black, narrow band of chocolate brown below rim of mouth. Glaze-runoff has been filed off foot rim. Interior is white. Neck has been broken and mended with piece missing. Some 'pinholes' in glaze near base. Height 21.8 centimeters, max diameter 12.5 centimeters.

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