Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1426-1435
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:fruit
Dimensions:Height: 17 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain gourd-shaped bottle with underglaze blue decoration. This gourd-shaped bottle has a narrow tapering neck and a small upper and large lower bulb with a concave unglazed base. It is decorated in underglaze blue with a flowering and fruiting gourd vine. It is finely potted and the ‘heaped and piled’ manner of its underglaze painting is in early fifteenth-century style.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Flawed shards of a smaller water dropper, and of a ‘niao long cha’ [bird cage accessory], both modelled as a gourd with this type of decoration, were excavated in the Xuande strata at the Ming imperial factory at Zhushan, Jmgdezhen, in 1993. No identical vessels have been excavated and the absence of this type from the National Palace Museum’s collections may explain Jenyns’ view that the present bottle was a Kangxi period (1662-1722) copy of an earlier Ming piece. However, the fifteenth-century blue-and-white porcelains selected for reproduction in the Qing were mostly well-known types and they could not quite recreate the depth of the blue painting.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:fruit
Dimensions:Height: 17 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain gourd-shaped bottle with underglaze blue decoration. This gourd-shaped bottle has a narrow tapering neck and a small upper and large lower bulb with a concave unglazed base. It is decorated in underglaze blue with a flowering and fruiting gourd vine. It is finely potted and the ‘heaped and piled’ manner of its underglaze painting is in early fifteenth-century style.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Flawed shards of a smaller water dropper, and of a ‘niao long cha’ [bird cage accessory], both modelled as a gourd with this type of decoration, were excavated in the Xuande strata at the Ming imperial factory at Zhushan, Jmgdezhen, in 1993. No identical vessels have been excavated and the absence of this type from the National Palace Museum’s collections may explain Jenyns’ view that the present bottle was a Kangxi period (1662-1722) copy of an earlier Ming piece. However, the fifteenth-century blue-and-white porcelains selected for reproduction in the Qing were mostly well-known types and they could not quite recreate the depth of the blue painting.
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