Vase with paired handles in sweet-white glaze, Ming dynasty, Yongle reign (1403-1424)

Vase with paired handles in sweet-white glaze, Ming dynasty, Yongle reign (1403-1424)

• Image Number: K1B006089N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Ming dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Mineral/ceramic/porcelain
• Description:
  The double ear bottle has a pan mouth, a long neck, a round abdomen, and a double table with feet around it. Each side of the neck is decorated with an elephant head ear. White glaze is applied to the whole body, and there is no glaze only at the foot of the ring. This bottle is 40.7 cm high, with thick fetal bone and glaze. By comparing the glazed red animal ear bottles of the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty collected by the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and the Shanghai Museum, and the fragments of the long necked bottle with the words “Yongle Yuan… Offering” and “Yongle Four Years… Offering” written along the mouth of the Zhushan Site in Jingdezhen, it is speculated that they may be works of the Yongle period. In addition, the yellow label “Emperor Shizongxian” was pasted on the vase, suggesting that the jar might have been used by Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty.