Jar Painted with Peonies

1525-1575

24.4 cm 32 cm

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This jar, which may have been used for wine, is an example of export porcelain from China to the Near East; the white porcelain broad shouldered jar is painted with underglaze cobalt blue peony blossoms and leaf patterns mounted with a Persian lid and lock. The metalwork is et...

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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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