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Details
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- Qingbai ware jar of cuboid form
Yingqing ware jar of cuboid form - Place where the work was made
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Jingdezhen
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Jiangxi Province
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China
- Period
- Yuan dynasty 1279 - 1368 → China
- Date
- 14th century
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- porcelain with 'qingbai' glaze
- Dimensions
- 7.0 x 6.5 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of the Bodor Family 1999
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 118.1999
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Jingdezhen ware
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This small jar is modelled in the cuboid form with a square mouth. Each of the four vertical faces is decorated with applied beading while modelled lugs in the form of 'chi' dragons decorate the shoulders. The porcelain body is covered with a 'qingbai' bluish-tone glaze.
Although the advent of the Yuan dynasty saw no marked disruption to the Southern Song tradition, it saw the introduction of new decorative techniques, both applied and painted. Moulded and modelled appliqué were used, with beading and studding as the two principal techniques. The transformation of handle loops into serpentine 'chi' dragons was a distinctive achievement of the Yuan potters, adding an exuberance and fanciful dimension to the otherwise restrained Song ceramic forms.
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Places
Where the work was made
Jingdezhen
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Oriental Trade Ceramics in Southeast Asia 10th to 16th Century, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 06 Jun 1980–20 Jul 1980
Oriental Trade Ceramics in Southeast Asia 10th to 16th Century, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 01 Aug 1980–31 Aug 1980
Oriental Trade Ceramics in Southeast Asia 10th to 16th Century, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Oct 1980–09 Nov 1980
Open Studio (brick vase clay cup jug), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Jul 2023–07 Jan 2024
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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John Guy, Oriental trade ceramics in southeast Asia, 10th to 16th century: selected from Australian collections, including the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Bodor Collection, Melbourne, 1980, 41 (illus.). plate no. 32
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John Guy, Oriental trade ceramics in South-East Asia: Ninth to sixteenth centuries, Singapore, 1986, 88, 89 (illus.). no. 39
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Export Ceramics', Sydney, 2003, 134 (colour illus.).
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Provenance
F.W. Bodor, 1980-Apr 1985, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, F.W. Bodor is recorded as the owner in John Guy, ‘Oriental Trade Ceramics in Southeast Asia, 10th to 16th Century’, published by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1980.
Mrs Ella Bodor, 1985-Jun 1999, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, by descent. Donated to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, June 1999.