Mallet-shaped vase in sky-blue glaze. Kilns of Southern China. Ming to Qing dynasty, 17th – 18th century

Mallet-shaped vase in sky-blue glaze. Kilns of Southern China. Ming to Qing dynasty, 17th – 18th century

• Image Number: K1B017860N000000000PAE
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Tubular vial, simple in shape. Straight mouth, outward fold along the mouth, round lip with edge, tubular long neck, oblique shoulder, straight tubular deep abdomen, shallow excavation of the outsole as a ring foot. The inner and outer walls of the whole vessel are all glazed, and the glaze color is gray blue. There is a circle of exposed body along the edge glaze of the foot and the inner and outer edges of the mouth, and the color is iron black. There are old wounds on the neck, glaze cracks in the feet and a circle of different glaze colors. This piece has a wooden seat with the London exhibition label number “218” at the bottom of the wooden seat, which shows that this piece was loaned from the Forbidden City to London, England, to participate in The International Exhibition of Chinese Art, London (1935-6) from 1935 to 1936.