Jar
1500-1600 (made)
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Jar of buff porcellaneous stoneware, painted in brown and blue and covered with a cream-coloured glaze. Pear-shaped with short neck and wide mouth. Painted on one side with flowering plants and trees and lingzhi fungus in brown on a stylised rock painted in blue; on the other side is a fish in water before a pavilion, and above, a dragon amid clouds. The dull-surfaced glaze is dark cream-colour shading to purplish brown.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Stoneware, painted, glazed |
| Brief description | Jar, stoneware painted in underglaze blue and brown, China, Ming dynasty |
| Physical description | Jar of buff porcellaneous stoneware, painted in brown and blue and covered with a cream-coloured glaze. Pear-shaped with short neck and wide mouth. Painted on one side with flowering plants and trees and lingzhi fungus in brown on a stylised rock painted in blue; on the other side is a fish in water before a pavilion, and above, a dragon amid clouds. The dull-surfaced glaze is dark cream-colour shading to purplish brown. |
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| Credit line | Given by Sydney Vacher |
| Production | from label |
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| Accession number | C.311-1927 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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