Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1640-1650 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:sea animal symbol insect,flower shell fruit
Dimensions:Diameter: 5.10 inches Height: 19 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain vase with underglaze blue decoration. The shape of this vase is quite unusual. It has a compressed globular body, flat shoulder, tall flaring neck and thick flayed foot. It is painted all over with a wide range of auspicious symbols, plants and insects in underglaze blue. Around the belly and neck the motifs include: mirrors, fans, butterflies, cicadas, grape vines, conch shells, the character ‘wan’, chrysanthemums, coral and ‘lingzhi’. The shoulder is decorated with ‘ruyi’ heads filled with diaper, the neck with plantain leaves, the rim with a geometric design and the foot with a classic scroll. The four-character square mark on the base reads ‘Fu Fan zhi zao’ [Made for Fu Fan].
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Soame Jenyns suggests that this was made either for Zhu Changxun, the third son of the Wanli emperor, sent to take up office as Prince of Fu in 1601 and killed in 1640, or for his son, who became Prince of Fu in 1643 and set himself up as emperor in 1644 on the fall of the Ming dynasty. He was assassinated a few months later.Another vase of this type, with a similar waxy-looking glaze, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. However, this carries an apocryphal Xuande reign mark. There is also a cylindrical incense burner which stands on three feet in the Palace Museum, Beijing, which bears identical decoration and glaze and carries the same mark, ‘Fu Fan zhi zao’ [Made for Fu Fan], in underglaze blue on the base as the British Museum vase.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:sea animal symbol insect,flower shell fruit
Dimensions:Diameter: 5.10 inches Height: 19 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain vase with underglaze blue decoration. The shape of this vase is quite unusual. It has a compressed globular body, flat shoulder, tall flaring neck and thick flayed foot. It is painted all over with a wide range of auspicious symbols, plants and insects in underglaze blue. Around the belly and neck the motifs include: mirrors, fans, butterflies, cicadas, grape vines, conch shells, the character ‘wan’, chrysanthemums, coral and ‘lingzhi’. The shoulder is decorated with ‘ruyi’ heads filled with diaper, the neck with plantain leaves, the rim with a geometric design and the foot with a classic scroll. The four-character square mark on the base reads ‘Fu Fan zhi zao’ [Made for Fu Fan].
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Soame Jenyns suggests that this was made either for Zhu Changxun, the third son of the Wanli emperor, sent to take up office as Prince of Fu in 1601 and killed in 1640, or for his son, who became Prince of Fu in 1643 and set himself up as emperor in 1644 on the fall of the Ming dynasty. He was assassinated a few months later.Another vase of this type, with a similar waxy-looking glaze, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. However, this carries an apocryphal Xuande reign mark. There is also a cylindrical incense burner which stands on three feet in the Palace Museum, Beijing, which bears identical decoration and glaze and carries the same mark, ‘Fu Fan zhi zao’ [Made for Fu Fan], in underglaze blue on the base as the British Museum vase.
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