Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1643 (circa)
Materials:porcelain, copper,
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bird bamboo flowers of the four seasons lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 20 centimetres Height: 20.40 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain ovoid jar and cover with underglaze blue decoration and metal handles and knob. This heavily potted jar has a compressed globular body low inwardly tapering neck and thick foot ring. On either side are wide curved metal handles attached to mounts. The slightly domed cover has a central metal knob and a stepped edge to fit inside the neck of the jar. It is decorated in ‘transitional’ style in underglaze blue with a flowering prunus branch and rocks, and with a bird perching on a clump of bamboo, a giant tree peony and a flying bird. Around the rim is a dental border. The cover is painted in underglaze blue with lotus, crysanthemum and peony sprays. The inside and the base are glazed.
IMG
![图片[1]-jar BM-1984-0303.19-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00262547_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-jar BM-1984-0303.19-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00355621_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-jar BM-1984-0303.19-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00274889_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:At least six such jars, all varying from 18.5 to 22 cm in height, were recovered from the Hatcher wreck (see BM 1984.0303.11). We know from the fact that these jars were recovered from the sea with their mounts intact that the metal knobs and handles were fitted at the time of manufacture in China. Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:This vessel, along with BM 1984.0303.7, 8, 10, 16, 6 and BM 1985.1119.38, belongs to a group of 23,000 underglaze-blue decorated pieces recovered from the wreck of an unidentified Asian ship in the South China Sea (Sheaf and Kilburn, 1988, pp. 12 – 80). Its cargo consisted basically of two different types of ware made at Jingdezhen at the end of the Ming dynasty: very late versions of ‘kraak’ porcelain, such as the dish in the present group, and examples of ‘Transitional’ porcelain, such as the jar and mustard pots. The discovery of two covers for oviform jar’s inscribed with a cyclical date corresponding to 1643 make a fairly precise dating of the wreck possible. This ship may have been on its way to Indonesia, probably carrying besides porcelain, also spices, silk and other commodities for sale to the Dutch, whose East India Company had offices in Batavia, modern Jakarta, Indonesia.
Materials:porcelain, copper,
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bird bamboo flowers of the four seasons lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 20 centimetres Height: 20.40 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain ovoid jar and cover with underglaze blue decoration and metal handles and knob. This heavily potted jar has a compressed globular body low inwardly tapering neck and thick foot ring. On either side are wide curved metal handles attached to mounts. The slightly domed cover has a central metal knob and a stepped edge to fit inside the neck of the jar. It is decorated in ‘transitional’ style in underglaze blue with a flowering prunus branch and rocks, and with a bird perching on a clump of bamboo, a giant tree peony and a flying bird. Around the rim is a dental border. The cover is painted in underglaze blue with lotus, crysanthemum and peony sprays. The inside and the base are glazed.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:At least six such jars, all varying from 18.5 to 22 cm in height, were recovered from the Hatcher wreck (see BM 1984.0303.11). We know from the fact that these jars were recovered from the sea with their mounts intact that the metal knobs and handles were fitted at the time of manufacture in China. Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:This vessel, along with BM 1984.0303.7, 8, 10, 16, 6 and BM 1985.1119.38, belongs to a group of 23,000 underglaze-blue decorated pieces recovered from the wreck of an unidentified Asian ship in the South China Sea (Sheaf and Kilburn, 1988, pp. 12 – 80). Its cargo consisted basically of two different types of ware made at Jingdezhen at the end of the Ming dynasty: very late versions of ‘kraak’ porcelain, such as the dish in the present group, and examples of ‘Transitional’ porcelain, such as the jar and mustard pots. The discovery of two covers for oviform jar’s inscribed with a cyclical date corresponding to 1643 make a fairly precise dating of the wreck possible. This ship may have been on its way to Indonesia, probably carrying besides porcelain, also spices, silk and other commodities for sale to the Dutch, whose East India Company had offices in Batavia, modern Jakarta, Indonesia.
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