Jingdezhen ware

(China)

Title

Wall vase of double-gourd shape with flat back

Place of origin

Jingdezhen → Jiangxi Province → China

Period

Wanli 1573 - 1619 → Ming dynasty 1368 - 1644 → China

Media category

Ceramic

Materials used

porcelain with underglaze blue decoration

Dimensions

32.0 x 15.1 x 8.0cm

Credit

Purchased 1988

Accession number

301.1988

Location

Not on display

Further information

By the Wanli period, the imperial palace in Beijing was not as prescriptive about designs as it had been in the past, and there was a decrease in imperial orders as the court was distracted by more pressing political matters. Potters had to find new markets, so designs changed and new styles emerged. The literati were keen customers and would have bought works such as this wall vase with a popular figurative subject of scholars in a garden and the tripod censer in antiquarian style (Acc.no 133.2000).

The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.121.

Bibliography (3)

J. Hepburn Myrtle, Chinese porcelain of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties 1977, Sydney, 1977, 23. cat.no. 30

Jackie Menzies and Edmund Capon, Asian Collection Handbook, Art Gallery of New South Wales 1990, 'Chinese Porcelain', pg. 30-41, Domain, 1990, 33 (colour illus.).

Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 'The Marvel of Porcelain', Domain, 2003, 121 (colour illus.).

Exhibition history (1)

Chinese porcelain of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Feb 1977–26 Jun 1977