Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1446 (dated)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, slipped, painted,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Height: 26 centimetres
Description:
Chizou-type jar painted in iron-brown on a cream slip ground with transparent glaze. This heavily potted ovoid jar has a wide mouth, short neck and ridge around the foot. It has a broad foot ring and an unglazed base. It is painted with a design in iron brown on a cream slip ground beneath a transparent glaze. Around the shoulders it is inscribed with characters which read, from right to left, ‘Zhengtong shiyi nian wu yue chu yi ri’ [Made at the beginning of the first day of the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zhengtong (AD 1446)]. Below this is an interlocking chain border of white on brown. In the main register is a hastily executed lotus scroll and there are overlapping lotus petals above the foot. The glaze has misfired and is rather blotchy.
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![图片[1]-jar BM-1936-1012.167-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00254349_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-jar BM-1936-1012.167-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00862575_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-jar BM-1936-1012.167-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00863968_001.jpg)
Comments:
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, slipped, painted,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Height: 26 centimetres
Description:
Chizou-type jar painted in iron-brown on a cream slip ground with transparent glaze. This heavily potted ovoid jar has a wide mouth, short neck and ridge around the foot. It has a broad foot ring and an unglazed base. It is painted with a design in iron brown on a cream slip ground beneath a transparent glaze. Around the shoulders it is inscribed with characters which read, from right to left, ‘Zhengtong shiyi nian wu yue chu yi ri’ [Made at the beginning of the first day of the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zhengtong (AD 1446)]. Below this is an interlocking chain border of white on brown. In the main register is a hastily executed lotus scroll and there are overlapping lotus petals above the foot. The glaze has misfired and is rather blotchy.
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