Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 960 - 1127; Classification(s): porcelain, vessel, throwing, porcelain, each covered with clear glaze encrusted with red dirt, decorated with incised and applied decoration; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 [C.639A-1991]
Description: Tomb vessel. Porcelain, covered with clear glaze encrusted with red dirt, and decorated with incised lotus petals and applied figures. The vessel has a wide, cylindrical neck with horizontal rings on the inside made with a wheel. On the shoulders and the body are seven figures standing on an applied scroll band, incised with lotus petals. The figures represent two tomb guardians holding swords, and five figures in robes holding, with two hands, buttons of office which rest against their chins. The body tapers into a slightly everted foot with a recessed, flat base.
Of a pair with C.639B-1991.