Jingdezhen kilns
Bottle Vase Decorated with Garden Scene
1660-1721
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Jingdezhen kilns
Bottle Vase Decorated with Garden Scene
1660-1721
Physical Qualities
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt decoration, 20.0 cm. H
Credit Line
Bequest of Francis Burns Harvey
Object Number
1931.20.49
Bottle vase having a long, straight, slightly tapered neck and bulbous body with an unglazed, stepped footrim. Just below the mouth, there is a narrrow chevron band above a plain, thin line. Two clumps of lillies(?) decorate the neck; above the shoulder is a band of three plum and three chrysanthemum blossoms alternating on a stippled ground. The body is decorated with two garden scenes in which flowering plants grow from behind fantastic rocks behind a fence. A pair of plain, thin lines encircles the foot.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1930; Francis Burns Harvey, Baltimore; Morgan Collection
Stephen W. Bushell and William M. Laffan, "Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains," NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1907, no. 374, p. 80.
Markings: No mark. Two labels on bottom: "MORGAN COLLECTION/374" and "374/D38"
