Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1426-1435
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Dimensions:Diameter: 16.50 centimetres Height: 14.80 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain ‘Zhadou’ [leys jar] with underglaze blue decoration. This ‘zhadou’ [leys or slops jar] has a compressed globular body, a tall trumpeting neck with out-turned rim and a flared foot. Narrow feathery plantain leaves adorn the neck in an upright band and below a ruyi collar turbulent waves with white crests crash over rocks. Blue double lines edge the inner and outer rim and the joins of neck and foot to body; a single line highlights the foot. Inside the jar is covered with a blue-white glaze and the glazed base is cut in two steps down to a central six-character Xuande reign mark inside the foot ring.
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![图片[1]-leys jar(also slops jar, zhadou) BM-1947-0712.177-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00263145_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:An identical ‘zhadou’ of Xuande mark and period is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Dimensions:Diameter: 16.50 centimetres Height: 14.80 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain ‘Zhadou’ [leys jar] with underglaze blue decoration. This ‘zhadou’ [leys or slops jar] has a compressed globular body, a tall trumpeting neck with out-turned rim and a flared foot. Narrow feathery plantain leaves adorn the neck in an upright band and below a ruyi collar turbulent waves with white crests crash over rocks. Blue double lines edge the inner and outer rim and the joins of neck and foot to body; a single line highlights the foot. Inside the jar is covered with a blue-white glaze and the glazed base is cut in two steps down to a central six-character Xuande reign mark inside the foot ring.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:An identical ‘zhadou’ of Xuande mark and period is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
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