Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1450-1464
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:leaf lotus
Dimensions:Height: 19.20 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain vase with underglaze blue decoration. This ‘min yao’ vase has a pear-shaped body narrow neck with square handles attached on either side, dish-shaped mouth and flared base with a stepped edge. Its glaze is considerably degraded and covers an underglaze blue design of a lotus pond with leaves, budding, flowering and seeding lotus, with ruyi clouds, a key-fret band and plantain leaves above and a band of lappets below.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:This vertically arranged design of lotus growing in a pond is found on a doucai bowl of the Zhengtong to Tianshun period, excavated at Dongsiling, Jingdezhen. Based on the form of a contemporary bronze altar vase, this vase relates closely to a bronze vase in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Its square handles are more appropriate in metal than in porcelain. Another vase of this form with a thicker neck, better decoration and purer glaze is in the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute. Indeed this type of degraded glaze and blue decoration is more commonly seen in fifteenth-century Vietnamese ceramics than in those from Jingdezhen and it may be that the vase was produced at another centre for blue-and-white wares such as Jiangshan county, Zhejiang province. A plumper vase of this form is in the Nanjing Museum. A vase with similar decoration of a lotus pond but with elephant handles and a putty-coloured body is in the Boston Museum of Fine Art.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:leaf lotus
Dimensions:Height: 19.20 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain vase with underglaze blue decoration. This ‘min yao’ vase has a pear-shaped body narrow neck with square handles attached on either side, dish-shaped mouth and flared base with a stepped edge. Its glaze is considerably degraded and covers an underglaze blue design of a lotus pond with leaves, budding, flowering and seeding lotus, with ruyi clouds, a key-fret band and plantain leaves above and a band of lappets below.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:This vertically arranged design of lotus growing in a pond is found on a doucai bowl of the Zhengtong to Tianshun period, excavated at Dongsiling, Jingdezhen. Based on the form of a contemporary bronze altar vase, this vase relates closely to a bronze vase in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Its square handles are more appropriate in metal than in porcelain. Another vase of this form with a thicker neck, better decoration and purer glaze is in the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute. Indeed this type of degraded glaze and blue decoration is more commonly seen in fifteenth-century Vietnamese ceramics than in those from Jingdezhen and it may be that the vase was produced at another centre for blue-and-white wares such as Jiangshan county, Zhejiang province. A plumper vase of this form is in the Nanjing Museum. A vase with similar decoration of a lotus pond but with elephant handles and a putty-coloured body is in the Boston Museum of Fine Art.
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