Blue-and-white covered box with floral and geometric designs / Kiln Unknown, Vietnam
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- Accession Number
- 1993/2.23.1-2
- Title
- Blue-and-white covered box with floral and geometric designs
- 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)
- Style/Group/Movement
- Hanoi region trade ware
- Dimensions
- 4.9 cm x 7.6 cm x 7.6 cm (1 15/16 in. x 3 in. x 3 in.)
- Century
- 16th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- box
- Secondary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Physical Description
- A melon-shaped stoneware box with a lid, the shape slightly faceted on the sides and the lid concave to a disk-shape center. The box is decorated with freehand floral and geometric designs in blue cobalt pigment, and then a whitish glaze was applied to the whole.
- Subject Matter
- Covered boxes were used as burial objects to accompany the dead. This practice for the care of deceased people in afterlife preceded the succession of foreign religious influence from Buddhism, Hinduism to Islam. The stoneware trade ceramics were also objects of status and wealth, for the local kilns only produced less durable and inexpensive earthernwares. The round shape with a handle, and some of the design motifs were adopted from stone and metal reliquaries and architectural elements came with Indian Hinduism and Buddhism.
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- design elements
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- patterns (design elements)
- patterns by specific type
- pottery (object genre)
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2348 x 1760
- File Size
- 550 KB
- Record
- 1993/2.23.1-2
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"Blue-and-white covered box with floral and geometric designs; Kiln Unknown, Vietnam." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1993-sl-2.23.1-2/1993_2_23.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 12, 2024.
