Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1600-1644 (circa)
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed, moulded, slipped, fahua,
Subjects:bird lotus monster
Dimensions:Height: 43.80 centimetres
Description:
Stoneware vase with monster mask and ring handles with ‘fahua’-type decoration. This stoneware vase is potted in an unusual variant of the pear-shaped form, elongated with a wide mouth and neck with an everted rim and a flared foot ring. On either side at the neck relief-moulded monster masks are shown gripping ring handles in their jaws. Unlike the rings on earlier vases these adhere to the sides of the vase and are moulded with a key-fret design. Both faces are decorated with the same design of a flowering lotus plant growing from waves, outlined in trailed slip and enamelled in a ‘fahua’ palette of aubergine and white on a turquoise ground. Above is a relief-moulded crane in downward flight. Inside the vase is glazed turquoise. Traces of an aubergine glaze on the base remain around a large central repair which may suggest that the vase was used as a lamp base prior to its arrival at the Museum in 1947.
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Comments:
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed, moulded, slipped, fahua,
Subjects:bird lotus monster
Dimensions:Height: 43.80 centimetres
Description:
Stoneware vase with monster mask and ring handles with ‘fahua’-type decoration. This stoneware vase is potted in an unusual variant of the pear-shaped form, elongated with a wide mouth and neck with an everted rim and a flared foot ring. On either side at the neck relief-moulded monster masks are shown gripping ring handles in their jaws. Unlike the rings on earlier vases these adhere to the sides of the vase and are moulded with a key-fret design. Both faces are decorated with the same design of a flowering lotus plant growing from waves, outlined in trailed slip and enamelled in a ‘fahua’ palette of aubergine and white on a turquoise ground. Above is a relief-moulded crane in downward flight. Inside the vase is glazed turquoise. Traces of an aubergine glaze on the base remain around a large central repair which may suggest that the vase was used as a lamp base prior to its arrival at the Museum in 1947.
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