Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, slip-painted,
Dimensions:Diameter: 22 centimetres Height: 27.30 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bottle with garlic-bulb-shaped mouth, toffee-coloured glaze and white slip decoration. This bottle has a garlic-bulb-shaped mouth and stand on a low foot ring. Covered with a rich toffee-coloured glaze, is is further decorated with highly stylized flowering plants painted in an unctuous white slip on both sides. The base is glazed toffee brown.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:In China, this combination of a toffee-brown ground and contrasting white slip decoration was introduced in the Wanli period. Painting in slip on a monochrome ground was a technique popular in the Near East, at Kirman in Iran, in the seventeenth century. Franks suggested that these bottles were part of a ‘narghili’ (hubble-bubble pipe) and may have been made for the Persian or Indian market. In fact, they are the wrong shape to be the base for a water pipe and were most probably flower vases or bottles made for the domestic market. Shards of vessels decorated in brown glazes with contrasting white designs have been excavated among kiln remains at Zhushan in Jingdezhen dating to the late Ming era.Such ‘Swatow-type’ wares were made in vast quantities with minor variations to the designs. A similar but not identical bottle is in the Baur Collection, Geneva, and another is in the Seikado Bunko Art Museum, Tokyo. A bottle of this type was among Queen Mary II of England’s porcelain collection, which was divided between Hampton Court and Kensington Palace and documented in an inventory of 1696-7, preserved in the Public Records Office. See also BM Franks. 98.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, slip-painted,
Dimensions:Diameter: 22 centimetres Height: 27.30 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bottle with garlic-bulb-shaped mouth, toffee-coloured glaze and white slip decoration. This bottle has a garlic-bulb-shaped mouth and stand on a low foot ring. Covered with a rich toffee-coloured glaze, is is further decorated with highly stylized flowering plants painted in an unctuous white slip on both sides. The base is glazed toffee brown.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:In China, this combination of a toffee-brown ground and contrasting white slip decoration was introduced in the Wanli period. Painting in slip on a monochrome ground was a technique popular in the Near East, at Kirman in Iran, in the seventeenth century. Franks suggested that these bottles were part of a ‘narghili’ (hubble-bubble pipe) and may have been made for the Persian or Indian market. In fact, they are the wrong shape to be the base for a water pipe and were most probably flower vases or bottles made for the domestic market. Shards of vessels decorated in brown glazes with contrasting white designs have been excavated among kiln remains at Zhushan in Jingdezhen dating to the late Ming era.Such ‘Swatow-type’ wares were made in vast quantities with minor variations to the designs. A similar but not identical bottle is in the Baur Collection, Geneva, and another is in the Seikado Bunko Art Museum, Tokyo. A bottle of this type was among Queen Mary II of England’s porcelain collection, which was divided between Hampton Court and Kensington Palace and documented in an inventory of 1696-7, preserved in the Public Records Office. See also BM Franks. 98.
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