Bottle

Museum number:
9-12651
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1564 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Wine bottle; white stoneware, pear shaped bottle which slopes to a long narrow neck with small lip, high foot with chip out, shiny, bluish-white glaze, faint blue underglaze streaks, glaze crazed at neck, decoration molded in relief of butterfly and foliage, decoration is on lower pear shaped area. 7 1/2” (18.5) diameter, 12 7/8” (32.7 cm) high.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Korea
Verbatim coll. place:
Korea
Collector:
George H. Kerr
Collection date:
before 1956
Materials:
Clay and Glaze (coating by location)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Stoneware (pottery) and Wine bottles
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Accession date:
1974
Context of use:
wine bottle, Yi period (1392-1910)
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
height 34 centimeters, base— diameter 13 centimeters, and diameter 60 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bottle, accession number 9-12651, described as Wine bottle; white stoneware, pear shaped bottle which slopes to a long narrow neck with small lip, high foot with chip out, shiny, bluish-white glaze, faint blue underglaze streaks, glaze crazed at neck, decoration molded in relief of butterfly and foliage, decoration is on lower pear shaped area. 7 1/2” (18.5) diameter, 12 7/8” (32.7 cm) high.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bottle, accession number 9-12651, described as Wine bottle; white stoneware, pear shaped bottle which slopes to a long narrow neck with small lip, high foot with chip out, shiny, bluish-white glaze, faint blue underglaze streaks, glaze crazed at neck, decoration molded in relief of butterfly and foliage, decoration is on lower pear shaped area. 7 1/2” (18.5) diameter, 12 7/8” (32.7 cm) high.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 9-12651, described as Wine bottle; white stoneware, pear shaped bottle which slopes to a long narrow neck with small lip, high foot with chip out, shiny, bluish-white glaze, faint blue underglaze streaks, glaze crazed at neck, decoration molded in relief of butterfly and foliage, decoration is on lower pear shaped area. 7 1/2” (18.5) diameter, 12 7/8” (32.7 cm) high.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 9-12651, described as Wine bottle; white stoneware, pear shaped bottle which slopes to a long narrow neck with small lip, high foot with chip out, shiny, bluish-white glaze, faint blue underglaze streaks, glaze crazed at neck, decoration molded in relief of butterfly and foliage, decoration is on lower pear shaped area. 7 1/2” (18.5) diameter, 12 7/8” (32.7 cm) high.

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