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Vase
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Vase
- Place of origin:
Jingdezhen, China (made)
- Date:
1662-1722 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
unknown (production)
- Materials and Techniques:
Porcelain painted in overglaze enamels and gilded
- Credit Line:
Salting Bequest
- Museum number:
C.1242-1910
- Gallery location:
Ceramics Study Galleries, Asia & Europe, room 137, case 9, shelf 8
Physical description
Vase of porcelain. Four-sided, slightly tapering to a pyramidal base; flat, sloping shoulders and flaring mouth with over-hanging straight-sided rim. Painted in overglaze enamels of the famille verte palette and gilded, with sages and attendants, flowers and birds in eight reserved compartments, moulded in relief in the form of leaves, an incense-burner, a quatrefoil, circles and an octagon; brocaded ground. On the shoulder, in lobed panels moulded in relief, books, scroll-paintings, a lyre and a chess board, symbolising the Four Accomplishments. On the neck, Daoist figures. On the base, lobed panels in relief painted with the flowers of the Four Seasons; ground of swastika diaper.
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen, China (made)
Date
1662-1722 (made)
Artist/maker
unknown (production)
Materials and Techniques
Porcelain painted in overglaze enamels and gilded
Dimensions
Height: 53.7 cm, Diameter: 17.8 cm
Descriptive line
Vase, porcelain painted with overglaze enamels in the famille verte palette and gilded, China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722)
Production Note
Register
Materials
Porcelain
Techniques
Painted; Glazed; Gilded
Subjects depicted
Flowers; Figures; Birds; Diaper-work; Books; Lyre; Swastikas; Paintings; Seasons; Chess
Categories
Porcelain; Ceramics
Collection code
EAS
