Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1450-1464
Materials:porcelain
Technique:underglazed, glazed,
Subjects:tree/bush fruit,flower
Dimensions:Height: 16.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain vase with underglaze blue decoration. This ‘min yao’ vase has a tall spreading neck with ribbed handles attached on either side, rounded shoulders, a flared foot and an unglazed base. It is decorated in pale blue cobalt with fruiting peach branches at the neck, scrolling peony around the belly and a band of spirals between double horizontal lines at the foot. Glaze is crackled.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Two ‘min yao’ vases of similar form with crescent-shaped handles in place of the ribbed ones were excavated in 1974 in the eastern suburbs of Jingdezhen from a tomb dating to the fourth year of Jingtai (AD 1453). This tomb also included two other vases, a cylindrical incense burner, a small dish and a pure water offering bowl, presumably to equip the deceased with the means to make offerings or set up an altar table in the afterlife. Such lotus scroll work combined with the peach is a particularly common decorative motif on porcelains made at commercial kilns of the Jingtai to Tianshun period. Another almost identical vase but with flower sprays around the foot is in the Buffalo Museum of Science.Peaches of this type are a common motif on porcelains of the Interregnum period. A tripod incence burner on an integral Yuan-style base was excavated from the tomb of Yuan Longzhen, dated in accordance with 1456.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:underglazed, glazed,
Subjects:tree/bush fruit,flower
Dimensions:Height: 16.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain vase with underglaze blue decoration. This ‘min yao’ vase has a tall spreading neck with ribbed handles attached on either side, rounded shoulders, a flared foot and an unglazed base. It is decorated in pale blue cobalt with fruiting peach branches at the neck, scrolling peony around the belly and a band of spirals between double horizontal lines at the foot. Glaze is crackled.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Two ‘min yao’ vases of similar form with crescent-shaped handles in place of the ribbed ones were excavated in 1974 in the eastern suburbs of Jingdezhen from a tomb dating to the fourth year of Jingtai (AD 1453). This tomb also included two other vases, a cylindrical incense burner, a small dish and a pure water offering bowl, presumably to equip the deceased with the means to make offerings or set up an altar table in the afterlife. Such lotus scroll work combined with the peach is a particularly common decorative motif on porcelains made at commercial kilns of the Jingtai to Tianshun period. Another almost identical vase but with flower sprays around the foot is in the Buffalo Museum of Science.Peaches of this type are a common motif on porcelains of the Interregnum period. A tripod incence burner on an integral Yuan-style base was excavated from the tomb of Yuan Longzhen, dated in accordance with 1456.
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