ewer
- Museum number
- Franks.151
- Description
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Porcelain ewer decorated in underglaze blue. This ewer has a pear-shaped body, an out-turned rim, a long spout with curved tip attached to the body by a cloud-shaped strut and a broad curved handle with a small loop at the top for the attachment of a cover. It stands on a spreading foot ring and has a glazed base. It is painted beneath the glaze in rich dark cobalt-blue tones with a peony scroll around the neck and body, daylilies around the spout and plantain leaves encircling the neck.
- Production date
- 1403-1424
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 24.10 centimetres (with spout and handle)
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Height: 29.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Compare with Franks.134
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Harrison-Hall 2001:
Such ewers were made in the imperial porcelain factory at Jingdezhen in the Yongle era. Ewers with varying decoration but of the same form were excavated in the Yongle strata at Dongmentou, Zhushan, in 1994. Although made in the imperial factory, ewers of this type were also exported, probably as diplomatic gifts; two examples are in the Shah Abbas collection at the Ardebil shrine, Iran.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2014 Sep-2015 Jan, BM WCEC, 'Ming: 50 years that changed China'
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- Franks.151