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Jingdezhen kilns

Covered Jar Decorated with Scenes of Women

1766-1799

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Jingdezhen kilns

Covered Jar Decorated with Scenes of Women

1766-1799

Physical Qualities Porcelain with underglaze cobalt decoration, 11 1/8 H x 5 3/8 Diam. in. (28.3 x 13.7 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Francis Burns Harvey
Object Number 1931.20.58
The lid is decorated with three dancing boys and an unglazed, pointed knop. On the jar, below the unglazed mouth, there is a single line above a wide band of hexagonal diaper pattern with dots. The body of the jar is decorated with two scenes of two women on opposite sides of the jar. On one side, they stand on either side of a small square table, admiring the dish garden - a chrysanthemum planted with a rock - on the table. On the other side, the women admire a pine(?) bough in a Gu-shaped vase which sits on a larger, rectangular table with a covered wine pot (zhi) and a ruyi scepter. The two scenes are separated by a large banana tree which grows in front of large rocks and by two deciduous (maple?) trees which grow in front of a large, fantastic rock. Around the bottom, there are small pines and rocks; above the everted foot is a band of splotches contained within two pairs of plain double lines. The jar has a high, unglazed, stepped foot. The cobalt blue ranges in color from very pale to dark sapphire; the white of the body has a distinctly blue cast.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1930; Francis Burns Harvey, Baltimore; collection of L. Huth; collection of R.B.

Markings: Mark: on bottom in underglaze cobalt, artemisia leaf Three labels, removed and enclosed in file: in pencil within a double red oval ring, "37"; in ink on rectangular paper, "L. Huth"; printed on paper oval, "[raised right arm holding an acron above a scroll]...(illeg. OES)TUS BENE DICTUS/R.B. (below the scroll)"

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