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LicenseTall pottery funerary vase with blue-green glaze
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Tall pottery funerary vase with blue-green glaze
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Tall pottery funerary vase with blue-green glaze, decorated with figures in relief, contained ashes in a tomb, Chinese, 1201 to 1400
Funerary vases or urns hold ashes after a cremation. They are found worldwide and are still used. The owner of this tall pottery vase may have been wealthy or important. It is elaborately decorated with a circle of robed figures and assorted birds, dragons and animals. The vase was acquired by the Wellcome collections in 1930 through the auction house Sotheby’s.
Details
- Category:
- Asian Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657048
- Materials:
- glazed ceramic
- Measurements:
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overall: 710 cm x 200 mm x 200 mm, 4.085kg
TOP: 95 mm,
BASE: 115 mm,
- type:
- sepulchral vase
- credit:
- Sotheby's
