Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1436-1464
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:fish fruit lotus
Dimensions:Height: 16.50 centimetres
Description:
Two porcelain meiping vases with underglaze blue decoration. These two vases are of square cross-section with handles applied on either side at the neck in the form of a simplified fish dragon. They are both decorated in underglaze blue with lotus sprays, lingzhi and peaches. Both bases are unglazed. Glaze is crackled.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Contemporary bronze altar vessels inspired the form of these porcelain vases. A larger faceted bronze altar vase in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, has six sides but is similar to the present porcelain examples in terms of having dragon-headed handles, pedestal bases and tiered construction. Two blue-and-white porcelain vases of this square form with similar handles were excavated from the tomb of Mme Cai (1405-41), wife of the scholar-official Wang Xi (1405-52), buried with her husband and his other two wives at Pingwu county, Sichuan province, in 1464.The form of these vases and to some extent their decoration were replicated in porcelain decorated in the ‘fahua’ overglaze palette of turquoise, ink blue and white at Jingdezhen in the mid fifteenth century (see BM 1930.0719.5 and 6).
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:fish fruit lotus
Dimensions:Height: 16.50 centimetres
Description:
Two porcelain meiping vases with underglaze blue decoration. These two vases are of square cross-section with handles applied on either side at the neck in the form of a simplified fish dragon. They are both decorated in underglaze blue with lotus sprays, lingzhi and peaches. Both bases are unglazed. Glaze is crackled.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Contemporary bronze altar vessels inspired the form of these porcelain vases. A larger faceted bronze altar vase in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, has six sides but is similar to the present porcelain examples in terms of having dragon-headed handles, pedestal bases and tiered construction. Two blue-and-white porcelain vases of this square form with similar handles were excavated from the tomb of Mme Cai (1405-41), wife of the scholar-official Wang Xi (1405-52), buried with her husband and his other two wives at Pingwu county, Sichuan province, in 1464.The form of these vases and to some extent their decoration were replicated in porcelain decorated in the ‘fahua’ overglaze palette of turquoise, ink blue and white at Jingdezhen in the mid fifteenth century (see BM 1930.0719.5 and 6).
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