MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY

细节

An Unusual Carved Celadon Pear-Shaped Vase
Ming dynasty, 15th century
The body fluidly carved with two lotus sprays above a bow-string band and a band of upright petals rising from the slightly spreading foot, the waisted neck encircled by a double bow-string band below a band of upright leaves interrupted by the pair of dragon-fish handles suspending large stationary rings from their tails, all under a glaze of olive-green tone
12¼in. (31cm.) high

来源

Purchased in China in 1886.

展览

On loan: City Museum of St. Louis, 1911-1943/44.

拍品专文

The shape and decoration of the present vase is based on earlier Yuan dynasty prototypes, such as the vase illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, Tokyo, 1981, vol. 13, p. 186, no. 169 (left), which has a band of petals below foliate decoration on a pear-shaped body and stationary rings pendent from mask handles, but the neck is far taller, with a trumpet mouth and the foliate scroll is in slip under the glaze and not carved. For two contemporaneous examples, of the same form, but undecorated, see the vase with elephant-head handles and rings, illustrated by B. Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p. 64, no. 153; and another with animal mask and ring handles, in Zhongguo taoci daxi, 2; Mingdai taoci daquan, Taiwan, 1983/1987, p. 463.