Greenware water pot with loop handles

Details

• Title

  Greenware water pot with loop handles

• Associated place

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

• Date

  late 3rd century - early 4th century AD
  Western Jin Dynasty (AD 265 - 316)
  Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 317 - 420)

• Material and technique

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

• Material index

  processed material › ceramic › pottery › stoneware

• Technique index

  marked › impressed;

  glazed

• Object type

  container › vessel › pot › water-pot

• Dimensions

  with handles 4.9 cm max. (height)
  without handles 4.4 cm min. (height)
  11.4 cm (diameter)
  at foot 7.5 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.

• Museum location

  Ground floor | Gallery 10 | China to AD 800

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1956.367

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