Phoenix-headed ewer with brown highlightsFive

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Phoenix-headed ewer with brown highlightsFive Dynasties-early Northern Song (10th-early 11th century)

Short title

Phoenix-headed ewer with brown highlightsFive

Record number

BATEA : 53

Simple name

ewer

Classified name

ceramic; stoneware; whiteware; phoenix; bird; Five Dynasties; Song; ewer; China; brown;

Description

Description part summary

A phoenix-headed ewer, the head sharply sculpted and placed horizontally at the top of a tall four-ringed slender neck, the head surmounted by a small petalled mouth, the body decorated with two bands of overlapping petals down from the shoulder and up from the base, the whole covered by a shiny white glaze of ivory tint with numerous ferruginous brown spots on the raised shoulder and phoenix head and streaks down the centre of the upper band of petals.

Description material

stoneware

Description condition

Extensive restoration on the lip. Cracks on bird and neck. Chips on body and base

Description Colour

Aspect	Colour

body	white
decoration	white glaze with ferrugineous brown spots

Description length

Description height

33cm

Description diameter

17.8cm

Description width

Description depth

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Gallery location

Brunei Gallery, SOAS

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