Vase
1500-1600 (made)
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Vase of porcelain, with long pear-shaped body, trumpet-shaped mouth, and lizard handles. Around the neck is leaf-ornament in red, and the body is painted with peonies and chrysanthemums in blue; in a band near the base are the eight-trigrams.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue and copper red |
| Brief description | Vase, porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue and copper red; China (Jingdezhen), Ming, 1500-1600 |
| Physical description | Vase of porcelain, with long pear-shaped body, trumpet-shaped mouth, and lizard handles. Around the neck is leaf-ornament in red, and the body is painted with peonies and chrysanthemums in blue; in a band near the base are the eight-trigrams. |
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| Object history | Purchased from Myers & Son (6 Savile Row), accessioned in 1888. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project. |
| Production | Register |
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| Accession number | 1699-1888 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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