Vase
1997 (dated)
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Vase, porcelain with overglaze decoration of birds on a rock. The porcelain is a blank, bought in from a mass-producing factory at Jingdezhen. Pear-shaped body with a high, rounded foot and a tall neck with dished mouth. On one side is painted a pair of male and female pheasants on a rock, with bamboo and butterflies, in black, brown, white, yellow, green, blue and red enamels.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain painted in overglaze enamels |
| Brief description | Vase, porcelain with overglaze decoration of birds on a rock. On the reverse a dedicatory inscription to the V&A, painted by Zhia Xiaoxiang, China (Jingdezhen), dated 1997. |
| Physical description | Vase, porcelain with overglaze decoration of birds on a rock. The porcelain is a blank, bought in from a mass-producing factory at Jingdezhen. Pear-shaped body with a high, rounded foot and a tall neck with dished mouth. On one side is painted a pair of male and female pheasants on a rock, with bamboo and butterflies, in black, brown, white, yellow, green, blue and red enamels. |
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| Credit line | Given by Zhai Xiaoxiang |
| Object history | The vase was painted as a display piece when Zhai Xiaoxiang, a noted porcelain painter from Jingdezhen, was demonstrating porcelain decoration on Peter Wain's stand at the Olympia Antiques Fair in February 1997. The event is commemorated in Mr. Zhai's handwritten inscription on the reverse side of the vase, done in black with two of the painter's seals in red at the end. Had a padded silk box. |
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| Accession number | FE.66-1997 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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