Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:slip-painted, incised, glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:flaming jewel kirin
Dimensions:Diameter: 19.50 centimetres Height: 16 centimetres
Description:
Three-legged porcelain incense burner with toffee-coloured glaze and white slip decoration. This cylindrical flower pot stands on three low feet. It has an indented horizontal band two thirds of the way up the sides and a thickened rim. Inside its glaze is white but flawed. Outside over a toffee-coloured monochrome glaze it is painted in white slip with alternating flowering prunus and moons in the upper band, ‘qilin’ and ‘ruyi’ clouds in the lower band and lozenges and flaming pearls around the rim. Further details are incised, such as the hairs in the qilin’s bushy tail, its scaly body and the muscles in its legs. In a recessed white roundel in the centre of the base is an underglaze blue four-character mark which reads 玉堂 佳 器 ‘Yu tang jia qi’ [Precious receptacle for the Jade Hall].
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The 玉堂 佳 器 ‘Yu tang jia qi’ mark is not the name of a private hall but instead implies that the quality of the vessel is suitable for use in a grand mansion. It is a mark used from the Jiajing period until the end of the Ming era on wares made at Jingdezhen and at kilns in Fujian producing ‘Swatow-type’ wares.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:slip-painted, incised, glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:flaming jewel kirin
Dimensions:Diameter: 19.50 centimetres Height: 16 centimetres
Description:
Three-legged porcelain incense burner with toffee-coloured glaze and white slip decoration. This cylindrical flower pot stands on three low feet. It has an indented horizontal band two thirds of the way up the sides and a thickened rim. Inside its glaze is white but flawed. Outside over a toffee-coloured monochrome glaze it is painted in white slip with alternating flowering prunus and moons in the upper band, ‘qilin’ and ‘ruyi’ clouds in the lower band and lozenges and flaming pearls around the rim. Further details are incised, such as the hairs in the qilin’s bushy tail, its scaly body and the muscles in its legs. In a recessed white roundel in the centre of the base is an underglaze blue four-character mark which reads 玉堂 佳 器 ‘Yu tang jia qi’ [Precious receptacle for the Jade Hall].
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The 玉堂 佳 器 ‘Yu tang jia qi’ mark is not the name of a private hall but instead implies that the quality of the vessel is suitable for use in a grand mansion. It is a mark used from the Jiajing period until the end of the Ming era on wares made at Jingdezhen and at kilns in Fujian producing ‘Swatow-type’ wares.
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