Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, biscuit-fired,
Subjects:lotus kirin,flower
Dimensions:Diameter: 13.50 centimetres Height: 23 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain covered ewer with monochrome blue glaze and biscuit-fired decoration. This ewer has a stocky form with a tapering body, long neck, curved spout supported by an angled strut with curved terminals, and a handle with a loop attachment at the top. The cover is domed and has a lotus-bud finial. It is all covered with a monochrome blue glaze which has worn thin in places, such as the edged of the handle, revealing a pure white porcelain body. It is decorated on either side with a ‘qilin’ on the body and with a chrysanthemum spray on the neck, fired a pinkish-red colour in the biscuit.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The monochrome blue glaze of this ewer is very similar to a Wanli mark and period blue dish in the British Museum (see BM 1945.1016.13). Another ewer decorated in this way, with similar biscuit ‘qilin’ on a monochrome blue ground, from the Holger Lauritzen Collection, is in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm. That ewer has a different form with a globular body, spout and square handle.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, biscuit-fired,
Subjects:lotus kirin,flower
Dimensions:Diameter: 13.50 centimetres Height: 23 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain covered ewer with monochrome blue glaze and biscuit-fired decoration. This ewer has a stocky form with a tapering body, long neck, curved spout supported by an angled strut with curved terminals, and a handle with a loop attachment at the top. The cover is domed and has a lotus-bud finial. It is all covered with a monochrome blue glaze which has worn thin in places, such as the edged of the handle, revealing a pure white porcelain body. It is decorated on either side with a ‘qilin’ on the body and with a chrysanthemum spray on the neck, fired a pinkish-red colour in the biscuit.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The monochrome blue glaze of this ewer is very similar to a Wanli mark and period blue dish in the British Museum (see BM 1945.1016.13). Another ewer decorated in this way, with similar biscuit ‘qilin’ on a monochrome blue ground, from the Holger Lauritzen Collection, is in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm. That ewer has a different form with a globular body, spout and square handle.
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