Blue-and-white cup with brown glaze inside foot / Kiln Unknown, Vietnam
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1993/2.21
- Title
- Blue-and-white cup with brown glaze inside foot
- Artist
- Kiln Unknown, Vietnam
- Artist Nationality
- Vietnamese
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with blue underglaze painting
- Object Creation Date
- 16th century
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Vietnam (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Vietnam (nation)
- Dimensions
- 5.4 cm x 8.8 cm x 8.8 cm (2 1/8 in. x 3 7/16 in. x 3 7/16 in.)
- Century
- 16th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- cup
- Secondary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Physical Description
- A very small cup of a rounded shape with a slightly everted rim, standing on a relatively high, straight foot. The exterior of the bowl is decorated in two horizontal registers with geometric and abstracted natural motifs drawn with a very free hand in cobalt blue pigment, before a white glaze was applied to the whole cup. The interior of the foot is glazed brown.
- Subject Matter
- A small cut decorated in underglaze blue geometric and abstracted natural designs.
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for serving and consuming food
- culinary containers
- descriptors
- design elements
- drinking vessels
- objects we use
- patterns (design elements)
- patterns by specific type
- vessels for serving and consuming food
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2404 x 1728
- File Size
- 553 KB
- Record
- 1993/2.21
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"Blue-and-white cup with brown glaze inside foot; Kiln Unknown, Vietnam." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1993-sl-2.21/1993_2_21.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.
