Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:mammal bird fruit
Dimensions:Height: 22 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bottle with underglaze blue decoration. This flask has a compressed globular body, a tall cylindrical neck with a rolled lip and a low tapering foot. It is sketchily painted in pale grey-blue cobalt beneath the glaze in four registers. The main section shows three different birds; these scenes are bordered either side by cash diaper and around the neck are squirrels in a grape vine. On the base is an apocryphal Xuande reign mark.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The squirrel-and-grape motif was particularly popular in the Ming and Qing periods for decorative objects such as ceramics and lacquer wares. Squirrels, ‘cihai’ in Chinese, are capable of producing one to four litters every year, each litter containing from five to ten young. Most varieties of Chinese grapes contain many seeds and put out numerous tendrils. Thus both the squirrel and the grape are traditionally regarded as symbols of fercundity because of their prolific reproductive powers.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:mammal bird fruit
Dimensions:Height: 22 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bottle with underglaze blue decoration. This flask has a compressed globular body, a tall cylindrical neck with a rolled lip and a low tapering foot. It is sketchily painted in pale grey-blue cobalt beneath the glaze in four registers. The main section shows three different birds; these scenes are bordered either side by cash diaper and around the neck are squirrels in a grape vine. On the base is an apocryphal Xuande reign mark.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The squirrel-and-grape motif was particularly popular in the Ming and Qing periods for decorative objects such as ceramics and lacquer wares. Squirrels, ‘cihai’ in Chinese, are capable of producing one to four litters every year, each litter containing from five to ten young. Most varieties of Chinese grapes contain many seeds and put out numerous tendrils. Thus both the squirrel and the grape are traditionally regarded as symbols of fercundity because of their prolific reproductive powers.
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