Period:Unknown Production date:1920-1947
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted, underglazed,
Subjects:lotus dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 15 centimetres (maximum) Height: 27 centimetres (with cover)
Description:
Four-sided porcelain jar and cover with overglaze red, green and yellow enamels. This covered jar is similar to BM Franks.1599 in form, palette and ornament but is constructed on a larger scale. Outlined in red enamel, its designs appear to be less attractive, simplified and more hastily executed. Strange scrolling dragons, shown prancing alternately on their hind and fore legs, are painted over a lotus-scroll ground with borders of red and green lappets below, further lotus scroll above and red and green triangles around the knob and base of the knob. The cover is decorated with ‘ruyi’ cloud scrolls. A double square frames a six-character underglaze blue Jiajing reign mark on the base. Its gold repair suggests that a Japanese collector once had it conserved.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Compared to BM Franks.1599, the dragons here are much stiffer and the decoration severely simplified. In addition to this, the palette is not typical of a Jiajing jar. It is a high-quality copy, probably made between 1920 and 1947, when it was bequeathed to the Museum. It was copied either at Jingdezhen or in Japan, where such enamel-decorated wares were popular in the first half of the twentieth century.Another much smaller (height 13.4 cm) jar with a missing lid, also with dragons with foliage bodies, is in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted, underglazed,
Subjects:lotus dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 15 centimetres (maximum) Height: 27 centimetres (with cover)
Description:
Four-sided porcelain jar and cover with overglaze red, green and yellow enamels. This covered jar is similar to BM Franks.1599 in form, palette and ornament but is constructed on a larger scale. Outlined in red enamel, its designs appear to be less attractive, simplified and more hastily executed. Strange scrolling dragons, shown prancing alternately on their hind and fore legs, are painted over a lotus-scroll ground with borders of red and green lappets below, further lotus scroll above and red and green triangles around the knob and base of the knob. The cover is decorated with ‘ruyi’ cloud scrolls. A double square frames a six-character underglaze blue Jiajing reign mark on the base. Its gold repair suggests that a Japanese collector once had it conserved.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Compared to BM Franks.1599, the dragons here are much stiffer and the decoration severely simplified. In addition to this, the palette is not typical of a Jiajing jar. It is a high-quality copy, probably made between 1920 and 1947, when it was bequeathed to the Museum. It was copied either at Jingdezhen or in Japan, where such enamel-decorated wares were popular in the first half of the twentieth century.Another much smaller (height 13.4 cm) jar with a missing lid, also with dragons with foliage bodies, is in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
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