Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed
Subjects:animal
Dimensions:Height: 33.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain vase with elephant-head handles, covered with a monochrome turquoise glaze (except for the handles). Loosely based on an archaistic bronze altar vase, this has a long neck, flaring out at the mouth, with elephant-head handles attached on either side of the neck. The shoulders are steeply sloped and the sides taper in before flaring to a stepped foot. The inside of the neck, around the lip and the elephants’ heads are glazed. Details such as the elephants’ eyes, folds of skin along their trunks and ears are delineated in black pigment. The vase itself is covered with an uneven turquoise glaze and the foot ring and base are not glazed. Extensive conservation work has been carried out around the neck in the section above the elephants’ heads.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A larger vase (height 45.5 cm), based on the same Wanli form of the present vase but with underglaze blue decoration of Tibetan/Sanskrit characters reading “Om-mani padme-hum”, made in the Qing, Shunzhi period (1644-61), probably for a Buddhist temple, is in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. Shunzhi period porcelains were often modelled after Wanli and Jiajing period prototypes.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed
Subjects:animal
Dimensions:Height: 33.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain vase with elephant-head handles, covered with a monochrome turquoise glaze (except for the handles). Loosely based on an archaistic bronze altar vase, this has a long neck, flaring out at the mouth, with elephant-head handles attached on either side of the neck. The shoulders are steeply sloped and the sides taper in before flaring to a stepped foot. The inside of the neck, around the lip and the elephants’ heads are glazed. Details such as the elephants’ eyes, folds of skin along their trunks and ears are delineated in black pigment. The vase itself is covered with an uneven turquoise glaze and the foot ring and base are not glazed. Extensive conservation work has been carried out around the neck in the section above the elephants’ heads.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A larger vase (height 45.5 cm), based on the same Wanli form of the present vase but with underglaze blue decoration of Tibetan/Sanskrit characters reading “Om-mani padme-hum”, made in the Qing, Shunzhi period (1644-61), probably for a Buddhist temple, is in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. Shunzhi period porcelains were often modelled after Wanli and Jiajing period prototypes.
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