Currently not on view
Cockscomb flask
2019-290
Information
Object Number
2019-290
Medium
White stoneware with glaze
Dimensions
26.5 × 21 × 18.5 cm (10 7/16 × 8 1/4 × 7 5/16 in.)
Culture
Chinese
Credit Line
Gift of Richard and Ruth Dickes
Place Made
Asia, China
Description
Flask molded in imitation of leather prototypes with a cylindrical spout and a cockscomb-shaped flange pierced with a suspension hole. The edges outlined with applied clay strips to simulate sewn gussets. The majority of the flask above the base is covered with a transparent, ivory-tinged glaze. Most of the slightly-concave flat base is unglazed exposing the white body.
–2002 Flores & Iva (New York, NY), sold to Richard and Ruth Dickes (Morristown, NJ), June 2002.<br>2002–2019 Richard and Ruth Dickes (Morristown, NJ), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2019.<br>
