garlic-head vase with design of dragons, birds and flowers in wucai painted enamels, Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573-1620)

garlic-head vase with design of dragons, birds and flowers in wucai painted enamels, Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573-1620)

• Image Number: K1B009303N000000000PAC
• Dynasty: Ming dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Mineral/ceramic/porcelain
• Description:
  The mouth is slightly closed and garlic shaped, with a long neck, a large belly and shallow hoops. The whole device is thick and heavy. During the manufacturing process, it is formed in sections and then assembled into one device. Therefore, there are five joint marks on the surface, neck and abdomen of the device. The inner and bottom of the ring foot are exposed, partially stained with glaze juice. The embryo is coarse and loose, and the fetal bone is rich in iron, so the unglazed surface is orange after burning, with iron spots. White glaze is applied to the whole body cover. In addition to the blue lines of underglaze blue and white flowers, red, yellow, orange, green, ink and other multicolor low-temperature glaze colors are used to paint grass, twig flowers, sketching flowers and birds, and sharp corner patterns. The belly is painted with a flower dragon as the theme decoration of this device. The four dragons have large and round eyes, which are like dancing and grabbing beads. Their strange shapes are quite cartoon interesting. The mouth edge is printed in six character regular script in blue and white, “Ming Dynasty Wanli Year System”. The use of many low temperature overglaze colors began in the Xuande period, to Jiajing and Wanzhou