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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Vase

1547 (dated)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Zhejiang (made)

Longquan vase, inscribed. Pear-shaped body with tall neck, two scroll handles, and spreading mouth and foot. Simple incised ornament of stylised flowers.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Stoneware
Object type
Vase
Materials and techniques
Stoneware with incised decoration under celadon glaze
Stoneware
Celadon
Incised
Glazed
Brief description
Longquan ware. Vase, stoneware with incised decoration and inscription under a celadon glaze; China (Zhejiang province), Ming dynasty, Jiajing period, dated 1547
Physical description
Longquan vase, inscribed. Pear-shaped body with tall neck, two scroll handles, and spreading mouth and foot. Simple incised ornament of stylised flowers.
Dimensions
  • Height: 29.8cm
  • Diameter: 15.9cm
Styles
Jiajing
Longquan
Marks and inscriptions
萬善里信女康一姐嘉靖廿六年正月內求男子喜捨花喜對後楓宮聖祖炉前益前思
Translation
The believer, First Sister Kang of Wanshan Village, in the first month of the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing (1547), seeking a son, joyously set one pair of flower (vases) before the incense burner of the Saintly Ancestors/Sage Patriarchs in the Houfeng Shrine, as a return for previous mercies.
Object history
Formerly in the G. Hart collection.
Subject depicted
Floral Patterns
Bibliographic references
  • Ayers, John. Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1980, Monochrome Plate No. 134.
  • Hobson, R.L. The Wares of the Ming Dynasty, London, Benn Brothers, limited, 1925, pl. 46, fig. 2, p. 9.
Collection
East Asia Collection
Accession number
C.566-1925

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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