Unknown Artist
- Title
- Altar vessel 'dou'
- Place of origin
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China
- Period
- Jiaqing 1796 - 1820 → Qing dynasty 1644 - 1911 → China
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- porcelain with yellow glaze
- Dimensions
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29.0 x 16.5cm overall:
a - a - lid; 10.6 x 16.5cm; height x diameter; weight 650g
b - b - base; 18.3 x 16.5cm; height x diameter; weight 1.550kg
- Credit
- Purchased 1967
- Accession number
- EC5.1967.a-b
- Location
- Lower Asian gallery
- Further information
These ceremonial vessels, the design and decoration of which were based on bronzes of the Western Zhou dynasty, were used in the primary sacrifices on the main altars in Beijing.
This yellow 'dou' would have been made for use on the Altars of Earth and Agriculture.
Hepburn Myrtle, 'Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain', AGNSW, 1980. cat.no. 4
- Bibliography (3)
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J. Hepburn Myrtle (Australia, b.1911, d.1998) (Author), Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain, Sydney, 1980, 6, 11 (illus.). cat.no. 4 See 'Further Information' for text.
'The Marvel of Porcelain', The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 2003, 129 (colour illus.).
'Beijing's altar of earth and its ritual ceramics' by Iain Clark, pg. 13-15., TAASA Review Jun 2009, Jun 2009, 14 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (1)
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Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 02 Aug 1980–21 Sep 1980.
