Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1488-1566 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, fahua,
Subjects:money/currency bird canopy shell,flower
Dimensions:Height: 35.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain wine jar with ‘fahua’-type decoration. This heavily potted globular porcelain wine jar has a short neck with a rolled lip, rounded shoulders and a flared foot. It is slimmer than BM Franks. 195+ and is decorated with giant peonies, rocks, a peacock and a peahen. The peacock struts, trailing ornate tail feathers, while on the other side the peahen, without such glamorous plumage, pecks the ground for food. Above are overlapping garlands of beadwork with alternating three-tiered pendants. These are made up of either a horizontal conch shell, lozenge and vertical conch shell, or or a ‘ruyi’ cloud, coin and canopy. Around the neck are further ‘ruyi’ clouds with a petal border, and there is a band of lappets around the foot. Inside it is glazed, but the base is unglazed.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:An almost identical wine jar decorated with a peacock is in the Shanghai Museum and another is in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, now in the British Museum.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, fahua,
Subjects:money/currency bird canopy shell,flower
Dimensions:Height: 35.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain wine jar with ‘fahua’-type decoration. This heavily potted globular porcelain wine jar has a short neck with a rolled lip, rounded shoulders and a flared foot. It is slimmer than BM Franks. 195+ and is decorated with giant peonies, rocks, a peacock and a peahen. The peacock struts, trailing ornate tail feathers, while on the other side the peahen, without such glamorous plumage, pecks the ground for food. Above are overlapping garlands of beadwork with alternating three-tiered pendants. These are made up of either a horizontal conch shell, lozenge and vertical conch shell, or or a ‘ruyi’ cloud, coin and canopy. Around the neck are further ‘ruyi’ clouds with a petal border, and there is a band of lappets around the foot. Inside it is glazed, but the base is unglazed.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:An almost identical wine jar decorated with a peacock is in the Shanghai Museum and another is in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, now in the British Museum.
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