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Chapter 4. Glazed Ceramics in the Musi River

Figure 71. Ten moulded sancai glazed toy figurines, Late-Qing, C19, from the Musi River: Pusri, Boom Baru and Sungai Rebo
sites.Catalogue Nos (L to R): K908 a, c, d, e & g, K954, K955, K1215, K1232, K1681.

Figure 73. Moulded sparrow, height 4.5 cm, Late Qing Dynasty,
C19, from the Musi River. Catalogue No. K907.

toys (Figure 73) found at the Pusri site (K824–5, K907,
K908b, f, K1783, K2290, K2466–7).
Several other Qing Dynasty pieces from the Musi had
brown outer walls including a bowl with an under-glaze
blue goldfish in its well (K1710), a cup with a medallion
Figure 72. Foo Lion, with dark brown mane and yellow with a degraded black and reddish enamel pattern on
spinal dots, height 9.5 cm, probably Qing Dynasty,
Guangdong Province, Shiwan kilns, 1644–1911, from the outer wall (K2174) and a bottle with an under-glaze
the Musi River. Catalogue No. K957. blue floral pattern inside a white medallion on the outer
wall (K1889).
Ming Dynasty glazed ceramics from the Musi were
predominately found at the Pusri site. A total of 42 per
a rock (K1870) from the late-Qing Dynasty Shiwan kilns cent of the 95 items with recorded site information were
in Guangdong Province. from Pusri. Then in order of abundance, Boom Baru (34
Associated with these polychrome toys were less abundant %), Sungai Rebo (13%), Sungai Guci (6%), Batu Ampar
but also crudely made monochrome moulded lead glazed (3%), and Sungai Suro and PT Sharp (<2%).

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