bottle
- Museum number
- Franks.337
- Description
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Pear-shaped porcelain bottle with underglaze blue and overglaze polychrome enamels in 'wucai' style. This unusual high-quality pear-shaped bottle has a dish mouth, tapering foot ring and recessed unglazed ground-down base. It is painted with thirteen individual fish in different attitudes, which are shown swimming among aquatic plants, such as lotus and duckweed, on a stylized wave ground. Around the neck there are a spearhead and ring border, a band of feathery leaves, scroll work and parallel blue lines.
- Production date
- 1573-1620 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 10.20 centimetres
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Height: 17 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- The Asian ceramics donated by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks were recorded in a sequence on index cards (known as the ‘Franks Index Cards’), held in the Dept of Asia.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- Franks.337
