Bottle

Museum number:
9-22697
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090022697
Accession number:
Acc.4349
Description:
ceramic water dropper or bottle; roughly egg shaped with flattened base and base ring. impressed design of vertical lines bordered by a horizontal line at top and bottom, around belly. tiny, protruding spout (0.5cm) on one side. domed top decorated with 2 blue/green flying creatures and an unidentified figure around a small, (0.5cm) center hole. glazed very pale blue overall.
Donor:
Estate of Elizabeth Huff
Collection place:
Asia
Verbatim coll. place:
Asia, unspecified Attributed China or Korea; Ira Jacknis 7/6/2010
Collector:
Elizabeth Huff
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bottles
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
August 5, 1988
Context of use:
brush painting
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
diameter 7.2 centimeters and height 9 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 5 titled Bottle, accession number 9-22697, described as ceramic water dropper or bottle; roughly egg shaped with flattened base and base ring. impressed design of vertical lines bordered by a horizontal line at top and bottom, around belly. tiny, protruding spout (0.5cm) on one side. domed top decorated with 2 blue/green flying creatures and an unidentified figure around a small, (0.5cm) center hole. glazed very pale blue overall.Hearst Museum object 2 of 5 titled Bottle, accession number 9-22697, described as ceramic water dropper or bottle; roughly egg shaped with flattened base and base ring. impressed design of vertical lines bordered by a horizontal line at top and bottom, around belly. tiny, protruding spout (0.5cm) on one side. domed top decorated with 2 blue/green flying creatures and an unidentified figure around a small, (0.5cm) center hole. glazed very pale blue overall.Hearst Museum object 3 of 5 titled Bottle, accession number 9-22697, described as ceramic water dropper or bottle; roughly egg shaped with flattened base and base ring. impressed design of vertical lines bordered by a horizontal line at top and bottom, around belly. tiny, protruding spout (0.5cm) on one side. domed top decorated with 2 blue/green flying creatures and an unidentified figure around a small, (0.5cm) center hole. glazed very pale blue overall.Hearst Museum object 4 of 5 titled Bottle, accession number 9-22697, described as ceramic water dropper or bottle; roughly egg shaped with flattened base and base ring. impressed design of vertical lines bordered by a horizontal line at top and bottom, around belly. tiny, protruding spout (0.5cm) on one side. domed top decorated with 2 blue/green flying creatures and an unidentified figure around a small, (0.5cm) center hole. glazed very pale blue overall.Hearst Museum object 5 of 5 titled Bottle, accession number 9-22697, described as ceramic water dropper or bottle; roughly egg shaped with flattened base and base ring. impressed design of vertical lines bordered by a horizontal line at top and bottom, around belly. tiny, protruding spout (0.5cm) on one side. domed top decorated with 2 blue/green flying creatures and an unidentified figure around a small, (0.5cm) center hole. glazed very pale blue overall.

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