White vase with Indian lotus scrolls, Jingdezhen ware, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

White vase with Indian lotus scrolls, Jingdezhen ware, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

• Image Number: K1B002832N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Mineral/ceramic/porcelain
• Description:
  This piece has a long neck, round shoulders, tight abdomen and short legs. The whole vessel is carved with deformed flower patterns, and then covered with transparent glaze of appropriate concentration to fill the carved places, which is incorporated into the kiln for one-time firing. The eyelets of the patterns form translucent glass shape under the light, which is quite novel and interesting. The vessel shaped bottle has been used as a vase since the Yuan Dynasty. In the early years of the Republic of China, Xu Zhiheng (1877-1935) recorded in the book “On Porcelain in Drinking and Flowing Room” that thin body porcelain, “is called exquisite porcelain if the two sides of the porcelain are porous”, so this kind of porcelain is also called “exquisite porcelain”. Because the decorative lines are connected by holes carved into rice grains, it is also called “Mitong porcelain” in Japan. However, this kind of decorative craft appeared at the entrance of Kashan kiln in Iran in the 12th century at the latest. It was not until after the Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty that Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln introduced this technique