Bottle

Museum number:
9-12291
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090012291
Alternate number:
1509 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.07
Description:
Oil bottle, ceramic, squat elliptical sphere shape with wide midriff, small foot and small slightly flared mouth, on very short neck, blossom decoration on one side in light blue underglaze, other side two butterflies or blossoms, grey pitted ground with yellow and brown iron flecks, faint line around the widest point. Height 7 cm
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and George H. Kerr
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan; ; Attr
Collection date:
before 1957
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bottles
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 9-12291, described as Oil bottle, ceramic, squat elliptical sphere shape with wide midriff, small foot and small slightly flared mouth, on very short neck, blossom decoration on one side in light blue underglaze, other side two butterflies or blossoms, grey pitted ground with yellow and brown iron flecks, faint line around the widest point. Height 7 cm
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 9-12291, described as Oil bottle, ceramic, squat elliptical sphere shape with wide midriff, small foot and small slightly flared mouth, on very short neck, blossom decoration on one side in light blue underglaze, other side two butterflies or blossoms, grey pitted ground with yellow and brown iron flecks, faint line around the widest point. Height 7 cmDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 9-12291, described as Oil bottle, ceramic, squat elliptical sphere shape with wide midriff, small foot and small slightly flared mouth, on very short neck, blossom decoration on one side in light blue underglaze, other side two butterflies or blossoms, grey pitted ground with yellow and brown iron flecks, faint line around the widest point. Height 7 cmDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 9-12291, described as Oil bottle, ceramic, squat elliptical sphere shape with wide midriff, small foot and small slightly flared mouth, on very short neck, blossom decoration on one side in light blue underglaze, other side two butterflies or blossoms, grey pitted ground with yellow and brown iron flecks, faint line around the widest point. Height 7 cm

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