Meiping vase with peony decoration in underglaze blue, Ming dynasty, Yongle reign (1403-1424)

Meiping vase with peony decoration in underglaze blue, Ming dynasty, Yongle reign (1403-1424)

• Image Number: K1B013673N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Ming dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  This bottle from the Yongle period has a small mouth, plump shoulders, and an introverted abdomen. The bottle with shallow round feet is called the “plum bottle”. Plum bottle is a kind of bottle created in the Northern Song Dynasty. It has been fired for thousands of years in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. The plum vase in the Song Dynasty was long, slender and beautiful, with a small mouth and a curly outside. The plum vase in the Yuan Dynasty was tall and majestic, and its neck was often trapezoidal. The plum vase in the early Ming Dynasty was small in size, with round shoulders as its characteristics. This plum vase is decorated with rich blue and white flowers, except that the bottom of the vase is unglazed and the body is exposed. The shoulders of the plum vase are plump. Four sets of double hooks are painted on the shoulders of Ruyi Cloud. The inside of the vase is painted with a broken branch lotus flower. The abdomen is painted with tangled peony flowers, and the bottom of the device is painted with tangled flower patterns for a week.