Greenware ewer with ornamental flanges

Details

• Title

  Greenware ewer with ornamental flanges

• Associated place

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

• Date

  9th - 10th century AD (AD 801 - 1000)
  Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 907)
  Five Dynasties Period (AD 907 - 960)

• Material and technique

  stoneware, thrown, and incised while turned, and with hand-modelled and incised decoration under a green glaze; glazed base; glazed rim

• Material index

  processed material › ceramic › pottery › stoneware

• Technique index

  thrown;

  marked › incised;

  formed › modelled;

  glazed

• Object type

  container › vessel › ewer

• Dimensions

  17.5 cm (height)
  16 cm (width)
  14 cm (diameter)
  at foot 7.7 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.

• Museum location

  Second floor | Gallery 38 | China from AD 800

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1956.260

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