vase BM-PDF.239

Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1432
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed

Dimensions:Height: 442 millimetres

Description:
Longquan porcelain vase with a long cylindrical neck and flaring mouth. The vase has pale grey-green glaze. There are carved overlapping leaves on the neck, overlapping lotus petals around the lower part, above a raised rib, and a wide band of lotus scroll around the body. There is an inscription on the neck.
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Comments:Published PDF date : AD 1432 Room 95 label text:PDF 239Temple vase dated by inscriptionThe custom of donating flower vases with inscriptions to Daoist and Buddhist temples was long-established. This vase has an incised inscription which reads 宣德七年七月吉日造天師府用 (Xuande, qi nian qi yue ji ri zao, tianshifu yong ‘Made on an auspicious day in the seventh month of the seventh year of the Xuande period [AD 1432] for use in the Tianshi fu (literally Celestial Master’s mansion)’). Stoneware, porcelain-type, incised decoration and inscription, green glaze; the neck cut-down Longquan ware龍泉窯Longquan area , Zhejiang province 浙江省，龍泉地區Ming dynasty, dated equivalent to AD 1432 PDF 239青釉刻銘紀年供瓶向佛教或道教寺院進獻刻銘花瓶的習俗流傳已久。此瓶刻銘“宣德七年七月吉日造天師府用”，意為：宣德七年（1432年）七月吉日製作，供天師府所用。炻器，属廣義瓷器，刻花，刻銘，青釉，口截龍泉窯浙江省龍泉地區明代，紀年為1432年