Yu Peng and Jingdezhen kilns
Vase with Carved Design of Boys in a Bamboo Grove
Late 1990s
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- Decorator: Yu Peng
- Kiln: Jingdezhen kilns
Vase with Carved Design of Boys in a Bamboo Grove
Late 1990s
Physical Qualities
Porcelain with transparent glaze, 19 × 11 3/4 in. (48.3 × 29.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number
2013.147
A vessel of this shape is commonly called meiping in Chinese, meaning “plum vase”. This example demonstrates a thousand-year continuation and modification in East Asian ceramic tradition. Yu Peng worked with ceramics very early in his career before focusing on painting. Later in life, he returned to the medium by going to Jingdezhen. There, the artist lightly carved an unglazed porcelain vase with an image of boys in a bamboo grove, in a style resembling his dry-brush ink paintings. Kiln workers then glazed and fired the vessel.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2013; Kaikodo, New York, by 2010; the artist
Asian Journeys, Kaikodo, New York, March 2011.
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Asian Reinstallation: Home, Temple, Tomb, April 26, 2015-July 2017.
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Across East Asia: China's Cultural & Artistic Legacy, October 30, 2019-December 31, 2023.
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Asian Reinstallation: Home, Temple, Tomb, April 26, 2015-July 2017.
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Across East Asia: China's Cultural & Artistic Legacy, October 30, 2019-December 31, 2023.
"Asian Journeys," Kaikodo Journal, XXVII, Spring 2011, no. 22, pp. 68-69, 171.
