Vase
- Museum number:
- 9-12685
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090012685
- Alternate number:
- 3166 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.05
- Description:
- China. Vase, porcelain with flambe glaze. Shape between 'Kuan-yin' and 'club-shaped' vase: wide, somewhat ovoid body from base to shoulders; narrowed neck and flared mouth. Recessed foot, and rough very chipped foot-rim. Glaze is purplish on neck to 'peach-bloom' red near base with 'hare's fur' stratiation throughout; translucent green hue over white on mouth rim. Purple to lavender on interior neck and stained white below. Glazed overall. Glaze run on base required it to be chipped free from kiln shelf. Rim has been broken and mended with two pieces missing. Height 31.3 centimeters, max diameter 17 centimeters.
- Donor:
- Anita Day Symmes Blake, Anson Stiles Blake, and Design Department (UC Berkeley)
- Collection place:
- China
- Verbatim coll. place:
- China
- Culture or time period:
- Chinese
- Collector:
- Anson Stiles Blake
- Collection date:
- pre-1962
- Materials:
- Glaze (coating by location) and Porcelain (material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Vases
- Function:
- 4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
- Accession date:
- 1974
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
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