Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1644 (circa)
Materials:earthenware
Technique:lead-glazed, moulded, glazed,
Subjects:flower
Dimensions:Height: 10.80 centimetres (with cover)
Description:
Ribbed earthenware jar and cover with green and yellow glaze. This ribbed ovoid jar has a recessed unglazed base, a short tapering neck and an overhanging cover, moulded in the form of a chrysanthemum flower, with a lotus-bud finial. Both jar and cover are decorated outside with a monochrome green lead-fluxed glaze which has degraded, the finial with amber glaze; the inside is unglazed. A horizontal ridge around the belly of the jar suggests that it was made in two sections, then luted together.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:This jar and cover were made for export to South-east Asia. They closely resemble a type of small jar made at the Tiankeng kiln sites in Nansheng (see BM 1985.1119.9). There are some differences between the excavated jars and the present piece: for example, the ribbing is much denser on the present piece and the finial more clearly defined.A slightly slimmer but otherwise identical jar of the same height and with green glaze and amber finial is in the collection of Hiromu Honda and Noriki Shimazu, who suggest that in Japan such a vessel would now serve as a tea caddy.
Materials:earthenware
Technique:lead-glazed, moulded, glazed,
Subjects:flower
Dimensions:Height: 10.80 centimetres (with cover)
Description:
Ribbed earthenware jar and cover with green and yellow glaze. This ribbed ovoid jar has a recessed unglazed base, a short tapering neck and an overhanging cover, moulded in the form of a chrysanthemum flower, with a lotus-bud finial. Both jar and cover are decorated outside with a monochrome green lead-fluxed glaze which has degraded, the finial with amber glaze; the inside is unglazed. A horizontal ridge around the belly of the jar suggests that it was made in two sections, then luted together.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:This jar and cover were made for export to South-east Asia. They closely resemble a type of small jar made at the Tiankeng kiln sites in Nansheng (see BM 1985.1119.9). There are some differences between the excavated jars and the present piece: for example, the ribbing is much denser on the present piece and the finial more clearly defined.A slightly slimmer but otherwise identical jar of the same height and with green glaze and amber finial is in the collection of Hiromu Honda and Noriki Shimazu, who suggest that in Japan such a vessel would now serve as a tea caddy.
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