Vase with Ba Gua and Yang Ying over Leaping Waves

1722-1735 H: 6 15/16 in. (17.6 cm) Citation Source image

A "three-string" vase (in Chinese sanxian ping) is characterized by the three rings molded in the porcelain where the body and neck meet. The slender neck rises to a flared mouth. Painted on the white porcelain body of the vase in underglaze blue and red are Taoist symbols. A...

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William T. or Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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