bottle (garlic-bulb-shaped mouth)

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bottle(garlic-bulb-shaped mouth)

Object Type
Museum number: Franks.98.b
Description: Porcelain bottle with a broad garlic-bulb-shaped mouth, toffee-coloured glaze and slip decoration. This stumpy bottle has a broad garlic-bulb-shaped mouth and stands on a low foot ring. It is covered with a rich toffee-coloured glaze and further decorated with thick crackled white slip, showing, on either side, basins filled with rocks and large peonies. Lion masks and mock ring handles are painted on both sides at the shoulder and alternating fruiting peach sprays and 'ruyi' symbols with beading are depicted around the neck. It has a crackled white glaze inside and the base is glazed in a toffee colour.
Cultures/periods: Ming dynasty; Wanli (probably)
Production date: 1573-1620 (circa)
Production place: Made in: Jingdezhen
Findspot: Found/Acquired: China
Materials
Technique: glazed; slip-painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 14.50 centimetres; Height: 29 centimetres
Curator's comments: Harrison-Hall 2001: A pair of bottles with related white slip designs on a blue ground is in the Burghley House Collection.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: animal; fruit; flower
Acquisition name
Department: Asia
Registration number: Franks.98.b
Conservation