Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1600-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:fruit,flower
Dimensions:Height: 15.50 centimetres
Description:
Double-gourd porcelain bottle with ‘kraak’-type underglaze blue decoration. This ‘kraak’-type bottle has a globular body, narrow waist, pear-shaped neck and recessed gritty base. It is painted with interlocking panels containing alternately peony and other flowers. Around the neck are six panels showing a table with a ‘gui’-shaped plant pot; a peach; a table with another ‘gui’-shaped plant pot; two peaches; a table with a flower vase; a flower spray.
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![图片[1]-bottle BM-1927-0519.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_PS313663.jpg)
![图片[2]-bottle BM-1927-0519.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00266313_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The lower half of a similar bottle, with panels like upright and upside-down tennis rackets, is shown, mounted with silver and filled with flowers, in a still-life oil painting of 1609 by A. Bosschaert in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and in another painting in the Tyssen Collection. This bottle is said to have been collected by the donor, B. C. Kennedy, in Bijapur, central India.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:fruit,flower
Dimensions:Height: 15.50 centimetres
Description:
Double-gourd porcelain bottle with ‘kraak’-type underglaze blue decoration. This ‘kraak’-type bottle has a globular body, narrow waist, pear-shaped neck and recessed gritty base. It is painted with interlocking panels containing alternately peony and other flowers. Around the neck are six panels showing a table with a ‘gui’-shaped plant pot; a peach; a table with another ‘gui’-shaped plant pot; two peaches; a table with a flower vase; a flower spray.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The lower half of a similar bottle, with panels like upright and upside-down tennis rackets, is shown, mounted with silver and filled with flowers, in a still-life oil painting of 1609 by A. Bosschaert in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and in another painting in the Tyssen Collection. This bottle is said to have been collected by the donor, B. C. Kennedy, in Bijapur, central India.
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