Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1547 (dated)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:celadon-glazed, incised,
Dimensions:Diameter: 16 centimetres Height: 29.70 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain temple vase with incised inscription and floral scroll beneath a green glaze. This pale olive-green-glazed vase has an ovoid body, a high foot, tall neck with trumpet mouth and S-shaped side handles. The base is flat and unglazed. It is decorated with a band of incised floral scrolls around the body and with a dedicatory inscription around the neck.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Unusually for such an inscription, as pre-modern Chinese is frustratingly written without punctuation, the end or beginning of this prayer is marked with a single circle, ‘O’, like a large full stop. The inscription reveals the donor’s preoccupation with the necessity to produce a male heir, her gratitude for his arrival and hope to secure her and her family’s future.The pair to this vase, mentioned in the inscription, is an identical vase with a shorter inscription in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The Victoria and Albert Museum vase was also acquired in 1925, bought from a Mrs Hart in Clapham, south London (reg. no. C.566-1925).
Materials:porcelain
Technique:celadon-glazed, incised,
Dimensions:Diameter: 16 centimetres Height: 29.70 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain temple vase with incised inscription and floral scroll beneath a green glaze. This pale olive-green-glazed vase has an ovoid body, a high foot, tall neck with trumpet mouth and S-shaped side handles. The base is flat and unglazed. It is decorated with a band of incised floral scrolls around the body and with a dedicatory inscription around the neck.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Unusually for such an inscription, as pre-modern Chinese is frustratingly written without punctuation, the end or beginning of this prayer is marked with a single circle, ‘O’, like a large full stop. The inscription reveals the donor’s preoccupation with the necessity to produce a male heir, her gratitude for his arrival and hope to secure her and her family’s future.The pair to this vase, mentioned in the inscription, is an identical vase with a shorter inscription in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The Victoria and Albert Museum vase was also acquired in 1925, bought from a Mrs Hart in Clapham, south London (reg. no. C.566-1925).
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