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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 145

Ewer

1662-1722 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Jingdezhen (made)
Augsburg (made)

A bottle with a knop on the neck, made in China, has been given a gilt copper mount when it arrived in Germany, and has become a ewer.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Ewer
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in overglaze enamels with gilt copper mount
Porcelain
Painted
Brief description
Ewer, porcelain painted in overglaze enamels in the famille verte palette, with probably German gilt copper mount, China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722).
Physical description
Porcelain ewer with globular body and long neck, mounted with gilt copper including long curved spout, high handle, cover and base. Painted in overglaze enamels in the famille verte palette with groups of the Hundred Antiques including flowers, vases, censers, chessboard and other auspicious symbols.
Dimensions
  • Height: 29.2cm
  • Diameter: 12.7cm
Style
Kangxi
Object history
Purchased from a source not recorded in the Asia Department registers, accessioned in 1881. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project.
Production
label
Subjects depicted
Vases
Censers
Chessboard
Flowers
Symbols
Summary
A bottle with a knop on the neck, made in China, has been given a gilt copper mount when it arrived in Germany, and has become a ewer.
Bibliographic references
  • Bushell described it as 'mounted as a ewer in gilt copper of early 17th century Florentine work', fig 16
  • Kerr, Rose and Luisa E. Mengoni Chinese Export Ceramics London: V&A Publishing, 2011, p.85, pl.118
Collection
East Asia Collection
Accession number
29-1881

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Record createdDecember 8, 2008
Record URL
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