Vase
ca. 1675-1700 (made)
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A pear-shaped vase with slight foot and completely flat octagonal base, the eight sides swelling and then tapering into a rather tall narrow neck with thinly potted octagonal lip. The base is unglazed. Painted in a palette of red, emerald green, yellow and greyish-aubergine with touches of gilding is a design of growing chrysanthemum plants on the one side an another plant with five-petalled flowers on the other, with pendant tendril scrolls on the facets of the neck alternately in red and gilt.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain painted in overglaze enamels and gilt |
| Brief description | Octagonal vase, porcelain painted in overglaze enamels and gilt; Japan, Arita kilns, Edo period, ca. 1675-1700 |
| Physical description | A pear-shaped vase with slight foot and completely flat octagonal base, the eight sides swelling and then tapering into a rather tall narrow neck with thinly potted octagonal lip. The base is unglazed. Painted in a palette of red, emerald green, yellow and greyish-aubergine with touches of gilding is a design of growing chrysanthemum plants on the one side an another plant with five-petalled flowers on the other, with pendant tendril scrolls on the facets of the neck alternately in red and gilt. |
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| Credit line | Given by Sir Harry Garner KBE, CB and Lady Garner |
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| Accession number | FE.5-1973 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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