Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1400 - 1500; Classification(s): porcelain, vase, throwing, hard-paste porcelain, thrown with applied handles, decorated in underglaze-blue; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.694A-1991]
Description: Vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze-blue covered with crackle glaze. The vase has a dish mouth, and slightly flared cylindrical neck applied with lug handles. Its rounded body is waisted on the lower part with a rib above the spreading foot, with a glazed, recessed base. The exterior of the dish mouth is painted with a border of herringbone pattern. Below, the neck is painted either side of the blue lug handles with stylised peach (?) spray within a double circle border; the body is painted with stylised prunus (?) and the flared foot with alternate lozenge and ruyi head (?).
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