Period:Yuan dynasty Production date:1280-1368 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:applied, incised, glazed,
Subjects:flower
Dimensions:Height: 27.50 centimetres
Description:
Pear-shaped ‘yuhuchun’ bottle with applied relief decoration, qingbai glaze and cut-down neck. This pear-shaped ‘yuhuchun’ bottle stands on a splayed foot and has a cut-down neck. Four sunken quatrefoil cartouches, outlined with double beading, ornament the belly and frame four high-relief designs of flowering plants, including chrysanthemums, peonies and magnolias. Beading encircles the bottle above and is applied in the form of inverted question marks in triangular frames around the neck. Below are two sets of incised parallel rings above lappet motifs. The base is glazed; it has been pierced with a large hole, possible evidence that the bottle was attached to a base mount or used as a lamp base before 1961 when it was bequeathed to the Museum.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Chinese porcelains that arrived in the West in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries came indirectly through intermediaries in the Near East. Direct trading between Europe and China was not established until the early sixteenth century by the Portuguese. Rare individual items were presented as gifts between the ruling houses of Europe. The present ‘yuhuchun’ bottle is similar to one of the earliest recorded Chinese porcelain vessels exported to Europe. That bottle was once mounted as a ewer in silver-gilt enamel for Ladislas the Great of Hungary (reigned 1342-82), who gave it to Charles III of Durazzo in 1381 on his ascent to the throne of Naples. It was depicted in a water-colour drawing by the French antiquarian Roger de Gaignieres, c. 1713, which is now in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Surviving the French Revolution, the ewer was acquired by William Beckford of Fonthill Abbey, most probably on one of his trips to Paris in 1793, 1803 or 1814. It was sold in 1822, with the Abbey and its contents, to pay Beckford’s debts. Now known as the Fonthill Vase, it has been in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, since the 1860s.Another similar bottle with a cut-down neck, mounted in silver with a cover from West Kediri, East Java, is in the Museum Pusat, Jakarta, Indonesia, as is a bottle with relief decoration of lions playing with a brocade ball from South Malang, East Java. Floral relief work is an innovation of the Yuan era. It is also known combined with underglaze blue and underglaze red decoration in porcelain, evidenced by a large covered jar recovered from a Yuan hoard at Baoding, Hebei, in 1964.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:applied, incised, glazed,
Subjects:flower
Dimensions:Height: 27.50 centimetres
Description:
Pear-shaped ‘yuhuchun’ bottle with applied relief decoration, qingbai glaze and cut-down neck. This pear-shaped ‘yuhuchun’ bottle stands on a splayed foot and has a cut-down neck. Four sunken quatrefoil cartouches, outlined with double beading, ornament the belly and frame four high-relief designs of flowering plants, including chrysanthemums, peonies and magnolias. Beading encircles the bottle above and is applied in the form of inverted question marks in triangular frames around the neck. Below are two sets of incised parallel rings above lappet motifs. The base is glazed; it has been pierced with a large hole, possible evidence that the bottle was attached to a base mount or used as a lamp base before 1961 when it was bequeathed to the Museum.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Chinese porcelains that arrived in the West in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries came indirectly through intermediaries in the Near East. Direct trading between Europe and China was not established until the early sixteenth century by the Portuguese. Rare individual items were presented as gifts between the ruling houses of Europe. The present ‘yuhuchun’ bottle is similar to one of the earliest recorded Chinese porcelain vessels exported to Europe. That bottle was once mounted as a ewer in silver-gilt enamel for Ladislas the Great of Hungary (reigned 1342-82), who gave it to Charles III of Durazzo in 1381 on his ascent to the throne of Naples. It was depicted in a water-colour drawing by the French antiquarian Roger de Gaignieres, c. 1713, which is now in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Surviving the French Revolution, the ewer was acquired by William Beckford of Fonthill Abbey, most probably on one of his trips to Paris in 1793, 1803 or 1814. It was sold in 1822, with the Abbey and its contents, to pay Beckford’s debts. Now known as the Fonthill Vase, it has been in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, since the 1860s.Another similar bottle with a cut-down neck, mounted in silver with a cover from West Kediri, East Java, is in the Museum Pusat, Jakarta, Indonesia, as is a bottle with relief decoration of lions playing with a brocade ball from South Malang, East Java. Floral relief work is an innovation of the Yuan era. It is also known combined with underglaze blue and underglaze red decoration in porcelain, evidenced by a large covered jar recovered from a Yuan hoard at Baoding, Hebei, in 1964.
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