Vase

Museum number:
9-13405
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3815 (previous number (Design Dept.))
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Vase, porcelain, with overglaze enamel decoration. Tall 8-sided fluted and lobed. Base shape resembles 2 pentagons joined at one side. High wide shoulder tapers to narrow, flared out foot. Narrow, long neck tapers out to flared mouth. White reserve chrysanthemums and buds on egg-yellow enamel ground with incised detail. Black branches and leaves in post-fired black wash on reserve. Light blue enamel line at top of foot, and white edge at base and mouth. Interior and recessed base glaze white. One corner of lip broken and mended with large piece missing. Shoulder corners chipped several places. Many pits and flaws in surface. Height 44.5 cm., maximum width 18.5 cm,.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Albert M. Bender
Materials:
Glaze (coating by location) and Porcelain (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Porcelain (visual works)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-13405, described as Vase, porcelain, with overglaze enamel decoration. Tall 8-sided fluted and lobed. Base shape resembles 2 pentagons joined at one side. High wide shoulder tapers to narrow, flared out foot. Narrow, long neck tapers out to flared mouth. White reserve chrysanthemums and buds on egg-yellow enamel ground with incised detail. Black branches and leaves in post-fired black wash on reserve. Light blue enamel line at top of foot, and white edge at base and mouth. Interior and recessed base glaze white. One corner of lip broken and mended with large piece missing. Shoulder corners chipped several places. Many pits and flaws in surface. Height 44.5 cm., maximum width 18.5 cm,.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-13405, described as Vase, porcelain, with overglaze enamel decoration. Tall 8-sided fluted and lobed. Base shape resembles 2 pentagons joined at one side. High wide shoulder tapers to narrow, flared out foot. Narrow, long neck tapers out to flared mouth. White reserve chrysanthemums and buds on egg-yellow enamel ground with incised detail. Black branches and leaves in post-fired black wash on reserve. Light blue enamel line at top of foot, and white edge at base and mouth. Interior and recessed base glaze white. One corner of lip broken and mended with large piece missing. Shoulder corners chipped several places. Many pits and flaws in surface. Height 44.5 cm., maximum width 18.5 cm,.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-13405, described as Vase, porcelain, with overglaze enamel decoration. Tall 8-sided fluted and lobed. Base shape resembles 2 pentagons joined at one side. High wide shoulder tapers to narrow, flared out foot. Narrow, long neck tapers out to flared mouth. White reserve chrysanthemums and buds on egg-yellow enamel ground with incised detail. Black branches and leaves in post-fired black wash on reserve. Light blue enamel line at top of foot, and white edge at base and mouth. Interior and recessed base glaze white. One corner of lip broken and mended with large piece missing. Shoulder corners chipped several places. Many pits and flaws in surface. Height 44.5 cm., maximum width 18.5 cm,.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-13405, described as Vase, porcelain, with overglaze enamel decoration. Tall 8-sided fluted and lobed. Base shape resembles 2 pentagons joined at one side. High wide shoulder tapers to narrow, flared out foot. Narrow, long neck tapers out to flared mouth. White reserve chrysanthemums and buds on egg-yellow enamel ground with incised detail. Black branches and leaves in post-fired black wash on reserve. Light blue enamel line at top of foot, and white edge at base and mouth. Interior and recessed base glaze white. One corner of lip broken and mended with large piece missing. Shoulder corners chipped several places. Many pits and flaws in surface. Height 44.5 cm., maximum width 18.5 cm,.

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