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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1911.12
Title
One Covered Jar from a Garniture Set: Covered Baluster Jar with Decoration of a Scrolling Vine with Fruiting and Flowering Branches, the Domed Cover with Knob in the Form of a Chinese Lion with Both Front Paws on a Ball
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
18th-19th Century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Qing dynasty, 1644-1911
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311104

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Qianlong-style molded porcelain: porcelain with molded decoration under very pale blue qingbai-type glaze; with four-character mark on the base extruded in kaolin slip under the glaze reading "Xuande nian zhi"
Dimensions
jar with cover: H. 63.5 x Diam. 21.5 cm (25 x 8 7/16 in.)
jar only: H. 53.2 x Diam. 21.5 cm (20 15/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
cover only: Diam. 16.4 cm (6 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: apocryphal four-character mark raised in relief on the base, "Xuande nian zhi"

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mrs. W. Wheeler Smith
Accession Year
1911
Object Number
1911.12
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Covered jar from an ornamental set originally comprising two "beaker vases" and three covered baluster jars (such as the present one), each piece ornately molded with a curling vine bearing flowers and fruit, the foot of each vessel with bands of stylized lotus-petals, the necks of the "beakers" with ru-yi sceptre motifs, and the necks of the jars with rising banana-leaf decor below a lei-wen border; the domed jar covers each with everted lip and decorated with scrolling leaf and crackled-ice patterns, and knobs in the forms of Chinese lions; the base of the covered jars bear four-character marks raised in relief.

Exhibition History

  • Ceramic Installation at Elms, Newport, Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, 08/01/1962 - 05/10/2013

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