Covered Vase

Dateca. 1765

MediumSoft-paste porcelain

DimensionsOH: 15 3/4"; Diam: 6 3/8"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1953-953,1

DescriptionOne of a pair of covered vases of hexagonal form. The sides slightly everting from the base to the rounded shoulder. The shoulder and straight collar both of hexagonal form. The cover high and domed, with a pronounced flange, in a hexagonal form. With acorn-shaped knop. A gray-ish glaze over a white-buff body with pronounced signs of movement in the kiln, including firing cracks, fritting, and slumping to the side panels. The contact points between the covers and vases glazed. The foot ring trapezoidal in shape. Both vases decorated by the same hand, signed in a conjoined monogram by a currently unidentified painter, in underglaze blue. The body decorated with an alternating series of two panels. The first with a large central floral and foliage spray, springing from the ground with serrated leaves, and stylized flowers arranged organically and asymmetrically. The second panel with what appears to be a HoHo bird (but possibly a peacock) perched in a flowering tree, with spindly limbs and oversized stylized flowers. The shoulder with a band of intertwined large flowers and arabesques with stylized leaves, creating a dense ground of vegitation, reserved in three quatrefoils, each with a slightly different scene. One, a small farmhouse on a bank next to a river with an arched bridge, from which a man fishes. Next, a junk plies the waters behind a be-forested rocky outcropping. Last, another man fishes in a lake next to a small garden pavilion. Comparable, though not exact scenes and ground are repeated on the covers. The collars of the jars and the flanges of the covers decorated with a crosshatched pattern, with the arabesque ground spilling over onto it.
InscribedNone
MarkingsOn base of each vase and collar of each cover, what appears to be a conjoined "T" and "F," perhaps a monogram, in underglaze blue. Cf. pl. 94, no. 31 of SCHREIBER COLLECTION.
ProvenanceEx. Coll: M.H. Stieglitz,
James Lewis, & Son, New York

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