Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1522-1566 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, slipped, painted,
Subjects:flower immortal landscape
Dimensions:Diameter: 25 centimetres Height: 32 centimetres
Description:
Cizhou-type jar with overglaze enamels on a cream slip beneath a transparent glaze. This jar has a wide mouth, a short neck with thickened rim, broad shoulders tapering to a narrow waist and a stepped foot. The base is unglazed and recessed within an outer foot ring. It is covered with a cream slip and designs are outlined in red and painted with polychrome overglaze enamels: red, turquoise, green and dark yellow. The enamels are much worn and the jar is cracked from mouth to foot and repaired at the mouth and at the foot. The Eight Daoist Immortals are represented in four pairs in a fanciful landscape with bracket-lobed frames. Li Tieguai, identified by his iron crutch, double gourd and beggar’s appearance, approaches the flutist Han Xiangzi with a crane in the foreground. He Xiangu, holding a lotus, advances on an androgenous Lan Caihe, who carries a basket of flowers. Zhongli Quan with his gourd is paired with Lu Dongbin, who has his demon-slaying sword attached to his back. Zhang Guolao is untypically shown with a unicorn and a staff while Cao Guojiu holds his traditional emblem, the castanets. Below these figures is a band of scroll work and above them an interlocking border with green enamel dots. As with BM 1936.1012.274, there is a flower scroll with four blooms around the shoulder and a hatched border with spots around the neck. The lower part of the jar around the foot is decorated with unusual lappets, with a feathery design at the top and spearhead motif at the bottom.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A ‘guan’ jar of a similar form, painted in iron black on a cream ground, is dated by inscription to the nineteenth year of the Jiajing period (AD 1540). It is in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, in the USA. The dated ‘guan’ also has similar decoration around the shoulders.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, slipped, painted,
Subjects:flower immortal landscape
Dimensions:Diameter: 25 centimetres Height: 32 centimetres
Description:
Cizhou-type jar with overglaze enamels on a cream slip beneath a transparent glaze. This jar has a wide mouth, a short neck with thickened rim, broad shoulders tapering to a narrow waist and a stepped foot. The base is unglazed and recessed within an outer foot ring. It is covered with a cream slip and designs are outlined in red and painted with polychrome overglaze enamels: red, turquoise, green and dark yellow. The enamels are much worn and the jar is cracked from mouth to foot and repaired at the mouth and at the foot. The Eight Daoist Immortals are represented in four pairs in a fanciful landscape with bracket-lobed frames. Li Tieguai, identified by his iron crutch, double gourd and beggar’s appearance, approaches the flutist Han Xiangzi with a crane in the foreground. He Xiangu, holding a lotus, advances on an androgenous Lan Caihe, who carries a basket of flowers. Zhongli Quan with his gourd is paired with Lu Dongbin, who has his demon-slaying sword attached to his back. Zhang Guolao is untypically shown with a unicorn and a staff while Cao Guojiu holds his traditional emblem, the castanets. Below these figures is a band of scroll work and above them an interlocking border with green enamel dots. As with BM 1936.1012.274, there is a flower scroll with four blooms around the shoulder and a hatched border with spots around the neck. The lower part of the jar around the foot is decorated with unusual lappets, with a feathery design at the top and spearhead motif at the bottom.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A ‘guan’ jar of a similar form, painted in iron black on a cream ground, is dated by inscription to the nineteenth year of the Jiajing period (AD 1540). It is in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, in the USA. The dated ‘guan’ also has similar decoration around the shoulders.
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