Description:
One of two Chinese porcelain miniature inverted baluster-shaped vases decorated in iron red and gilding, a type of decoration popular during the first quarter of the eighteenth century. Similar vases in the collection of the Groningermuseum in Groningen, The Netherlands, have been identified as Japanese, not Chinese. According to Christiaan Jorg (see correspondence in data file), these Japanese vases are characterised by the shape of their foot. They fit the Marot-fashion of decorating the interior with small objects, and also are close to the so-called "milk-and-blood" style of Kangxi Chinese export ceramics, painted in red and some gold only. Therefore I date them c. 1700. The vase is decorated with two large sprays of iron red flowers and gilt leaves with iron red brushstrokes; a similar bouquet on the opposite side with asters; an iron red band at the bottom; and a double iron- red band at top with zig-zag vertical decorated band.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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