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Source Description
This bottle vase's globular body and tall straight neck are painted with designs in underglaze cobalt blue on white porcelain. A series of Fu Lions are depicted playing with brocaded balls, tassels waving lively around the bounding animals. The lions, characterized by their manes and fluffy tails, are Buddhist guardians often portrayed in similar scenes as the one depicted on this bottle. On the shoulder of the vase is a diaper band filled with blooms while the neck is painted with a creature; it shares the serpentine body of a dragon but lacks a mane or claws. The mystical creature's split tail forms leafy vines surrounded by dispersed flames and an effulgent pearl. Just beneath the lip of the vase are two rings.
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Document identity
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3900
label
Bottle Vase with Lions, Balls, and Tassels
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object
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Source metadata
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3900
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object
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normalized
title
Bottle Vase with Lions, Balls, and Tassels
description
This bottle vase's globular body and tall straight neck are painted with designs in underglaze cobalt blue on white porcelain. A series of Fu Lions are depicted playing with brocaded balls, tassels waving lively around the bounding animals. The lions, characterized by their manes and fluffy tails, are Buddhist guardians often portrayed in similar scenes as the one depicted on this bottle. On the shoulder of the vase is a diaper band filled with blooms while the neck is painted with a creature; it shares the serpentine body of a dragon but lacks a mane or claws. The mystical creature's split tail forms leafy vines surrounded by dispersed flames and an effulgent pearl. Just beneath the lip of the vase are two rings.
provenance
Graves Sale, American Art Association, 1909, no. 404; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; by bequest by Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
1675-1725
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CC0
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en
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Ceramics
vases
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1
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
H: 17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm)
Source extras
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Chinese
dynasty
Qing Dynasty
reign
Kangxi (1662-1722)
med
porcelain with underglaze blue
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6238
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CHN
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none
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1
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0
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photo
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