Small Bottle Vase
1800-1899
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Small Bottle Vase
1800-1899
Physical Qualities
Porcelain with oxblood red glaze, 12.8 cm. H
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. W. Lehman Guyton, Cockeysville, Maryland
Object Number
2005.104
Very white porcelain body, bright rosy red oxblood glaze; the glaze thin where ground at the foot, transparent glaze, grayish white on bottom and mouth rim.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2003; Dr. William L. Guyton, Cockeysville, Maryland, by purchase; Robert Frank Skutch, Baltimore
Rose Kerr, "Chinese Ceramics Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911," London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1986, pp. 74-79 [for a good discussion of copper red glazes].
Inscribed: None
Markings: 2 labels: "Robert Frank Skutch/11 West Chase Street/Baltimore 1, Maryland"; "4921/KANG HSI"
