Vase
1450-1500 (Made)
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| Place of origin |
Vase, porcelain painted in underglaze blue. Pear-shaped body with spreading mouth and elephant head handles on each side of the neck. Painted with four dragons with elaborately contorted bodies; formal borders of lozenge patterns and plantain leaves around the neck.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Porcelain painted in underglaze blue |
| Brief description | Cer, China, Ming, blue and white |
| Physical description | Vase, porcelain painted in underglaze blue. Pear-shaped body with spreading mouth and elephant head handles on each side of the neck. Painted with four dragons with elaborately contorted bodies; formal borders of lozenge patterns and plantain leaves around the neck. |
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| Style | |
| Historical context | The vase bears the labels of the Elphinstone and David (no.622A) collections. |
| Production | label |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Illustrated in the Burlington Fine Arts Society exhibition catalogue, 1910, plate XXXVI, L14, where the vase is stated to have come from India. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.56-1937 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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