Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1522-1566
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted, underglazed,
Dimensions:Height: 22 centimetres
Description:
Two double-gourd-shaped porcelain bottles with underglaze blue, overglaze red and yellow decoration. These gourd-shaped porcelain bottles are decorated in the upper and lower sections with scrolls in cobalt blue and with red enamel peony flowers on a yellow enamel ground. Around the waist of each bottle is a band of simple five-petalled flowers in cobalt blue with red enamel centres and at the edges are half-seen flowers in red enamel, a band of underglaze blue ‘ruyi’ heads below and an unusual scroll-work border at the foot. Inside the recessed base is a six-character Jiajing reign mark in underglaze blue in a double ring.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:During the Jiajing reign the range of colour combinations on ceramics was expanded. For example, red enamel painting on to a yellow glaze was an innovation of that time. A break at the mouth of one of the bottles has been repaired with gold and lacquer, suggesting that it may have been in a Japanese collection. Although rare, an identical bottle from the Ataka Collection is in the Oriental Ceramics Museum in Osaka, Japan. Another is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. A further example is in the Toguri Museum, Shibuya district, Tokyo. Many variations on the design of these gourd-shaped bottles are known.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted, underglazed,
Dimensions:Height: 22 centimetres
Description:
Two double-gourd-shaped porcelain bottles with underglaze blue, overglaze red and yellow decoration. These gourd-shaped porcelain bottles are decorated in the upper and lower sections with scrolls in cobalt blue and with red enamel peony flowers on a yellow enamel ground. Around the waist of each bottle is a band of simple five-petalled flowers in cobalt blue with red enamel centres and at the edges are half-seen flowers in red enamel, a band of underglaze blue ‘ruyi’ heads below and an unusual scroll-work border at the foot. Inside the recessed base is a six-character Jiajing reign mark in underglaze blue in a double ring.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:During the Jiajing reign the range of colour combinations on ceramics was expanded. For example, red enamel painting on to a yellow glaze was an innovation of that time. A break at the mouth of one of the bottles has been repaired with gold and lacquer, suggesting that it may have been in a Japanese collection. Although rare, an identical bottle from the Ataka Collection is in the Oriental Ceramics Museum in Osaka, Japan. Another is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. A further example is in the Toguri Museum, Shibuya district, Tokyo. Many variations on the design of these gourd-shaped bottles are known.
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