Broad-Shouldered Jar with Peony and Pheasant Decoration
Artist
Unknown
CultureChinese | Ming Dynasty
Date1573-1619
MediumPorcelain | Enamel | Porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze polychrome enamels
DimensionsOverall: 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. James C. Perry in Memory of Nancy Nash Perry
Object number36.8.133
Collections
Not on view
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.
Unknown
late 16th - early 17th century
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late 17th - early 18th century
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10th century-13th century
