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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Broad-Shouldered Jar with Peony and Pheasant Decoration
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Broad-Shouldered Jar with Peony and Pheasant Decoration

Artist Unknown
Date1573-1619
MediumPorcelain | Enamel | Porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze polychrome enamels
DimensionsOverall: 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm)
ClassificationsAsian art
Credit LineGift of Dr. James C. Perry in Memory of Nancy Nash Perry
Object number36.8.133
Terms
  • Iron red
  • Green
  • Aubergine
  • Yellow
  • Black
  • White
  • Burnt red
  • Brown
  • China
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DescriptionJar has high shoulders tapering to narrower foot; short neck, narrow lip, flat unglazed bottom. Decoration, in overglaze iron red, green aubergine, yellow and black. Consists of one large cockatoo-type bird on large flowering peony bush; smaller birds flutter to one side. Background is overall diaper pattern in iron red. Interior glazed white; mouth burnt red brown. Heavily potted, made for export probably to Eastern markets.

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