Beaker with underglaze blue birds, grasses and flowers, 1660-1677. Artist: Unknown.

Beaker with underglaze blue birds, grasses and flowers, 1660-1677. Artist: Unknown.

2-653-949 - The Museum of East Asian Art/Heritage Images

A beaker of trumpet shape form with grasses and magpie on branches extending down from the rim and two in flight in underglaze blue. The piece is extensively clobbered with polychrome enamels of yellow, green, aubergine and rouge de fer. The interior side of the rim has formal decoration of squiggles in underglaze blue. The base has a Chenghua mark in kaishu script within a single lined circle in underglaze blue.


Image Details


People Information

Creator
  1. Unknown, attributed to: :
People Related
  1. Sydney Smith: : Art collector
  2. Alfred Clark: : Art collector

Medium
  1. Ceramic

Picture Type
  1. Object

Category Hierarchy

Science & Nature Plant Life

Lifestyle & Leisure Food & Drink

History & Politics Artefacts


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 5477x3651
File Size : 58,584kb


Aliases

  1. BATEA : 1445
  1. (9)BATEA_1445-b.jpg
  1. 0440001744
  1. 2-653-949
  1. 2653949
  1. BATEA : 1445


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