BOTTLE VASE
Creator(s): Unknown (Workshop)
On view in: Second Floor Library
About this object
This bottle vase is set on a slightly splayed foot ring rising to a globular body and surmounted by a tall neck with flared mouth. It is covered in a glossy flambe raspberry glaze transmuting to lavender blue and purple, resembling the speckled robin's egg glaze, or lujun; the mouth is dressed with a coffee glaze. A two-character cold paint mark is on the base.
This bottle vase is set on a slightly splayed foot ring rising to a globular body and surmounted by a tall neck with flared mouth. It is covered in a glossy flambe raspberry glaze transmuting to lavender blue and purple, resembling the speckled robin's egg glaze, or lujun; the mouth is dressed with a grayish-white glaze. A two-character cold paint mark is on the base.
- Object name:
- BOTTLE VASE
- Made from:
- Porcelain with flambé glaze
- Made in:
- Jingdezhen, China
- Date made:
- 18th Century
- Size:
- H. 14 × Diam. 10 in. (35.6 × 25.4 cm) on wood stand: H. 17 in. (43.2 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 26.254
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK on bottom: number in ink in Chinese
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973