Jingdezhen kilns
Bottle Decorated with Phoenix Motif
1332-1366
Scroll
Jingdezhen kilns
Bottle Decorated with Phoenix Motif
1332-1366
Physical Qualities
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt decoration, 11 1/4 × 6 1/2 in. (28.6 × 16.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number
1959.45
Many vessels of this type featured popular Chinese motifs such as the dragon or phoenix combined with lotus leaves like those decorating the shoulder and lower body of this example. These bottles were among the earliest porcelains painted with blue designs exported from Jingdezhen's kilns. Naturally occuing iron in the cobalt pigment caused the black splotches. Improvements in refining the mineral eliminated such impurities.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1959; Howard C. Hollis, Cleveland
Asian Reinstallation: Home, Temple, Tomb
Asian Gallery Rotations 2021
[Asian Refresh]
Asian Gallery Rotations 2022
Asian Gallery Rotations 2023
Asian Rotations 2024
Asian Rotations 2025
Frances Klapthor, Chinese Ceramics, Baltimore: BMA, 1993, no. 28, p. 40.
Adrian Joseph, "The Mongol Influence on Blue-and-White Porcelain," in "Jingdezhen Wares The Yuan Evolution," Hong Kong: Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 1984 exhibition catalogue, pp. 44-47 [very stiff painting].
Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Sotheby's London, 11/14/2001, no. 95.
"Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art," Yamanaka & Co., Inc. Sale, 1943, nos. 762 & 838
Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Sotheby's London, 11/14/2001, no. 95.
"Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art," Yamanaka & Co., Inc. Sale, 1943, nos. 762 & 838
On View at the BMA
