Greenware box with floral decoration

Details

• Title

  Greenware box with floral decoration

• Associated place

  Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Yue kiln-sites (place of creation)

• Date

  10th century (AD 901 - 1000)
  Five Dynasties Period (AD 907 - 960)

• Material and technique

  stoneware, with impressed decoration under a green glaze; glazed base; glazed rim

• Material index

  processed material › ceramic › pottery › stoneware

• Technique index

  marked › impressed;

  glazed

• Object type

  container › box;

  miscellaneous equipment › lid

• Dimensions

  with lid 3.5 cm (height)
  without lid 1.8 cm (height)
  10.7 cm (diameter)
  at foot 5.2 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  2

• Credit line

  Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.

• Museum location

  Second floor | Gallery 38 | China from AD 800

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1956.1212

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