Various glazed large bottles
One vase, every trick the kilns knew.
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Ceramics
Chenghua Chicken Cup (Doucai)
A cup the size of a coin, painted with hens, chicks, and a peony, and prized out of all proportion to its size for five hundred years. The Chenghua chicken cup is the masterpiece of doucai, a Ming technique that sets underglaze blue against overglaze colours so the two meet at a precise line. The
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Three-color riding and hunting figurine
The piece is a object, and Porcelain is the technique that decides how it reads. The pattern is laid before firing, so the colour sits under a clear glaze,…
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Blue and white landscape figure stick vase
This vase belongs to the long argument about Chinese porcelain: a blue-and-white porcelain body, thrown, glazed and fired until the surface turns to glass.…
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Lotus pastel flower and bird pattern tall bowl
The piece is a bowl, and Famille-rose (fencai) porcelain is the technique that decides how it reads. The pattern is laid before firing, so the colour sits…
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Soup spoon with colorful flowers and butterflies on yellow ground
This object belongs to the long argument about Chinese porcelain: a porcelain body, thrown, glazed and fired until the surface turns to glass. the Imperial…
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Blue and white floral pattern ewer
The piece is a ewer, and Blue-and-white porcelain is the technique that decides how it reads. The pattern is laid before firing, so the colour sits under a…
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Longquan furnace
This object belongs to the long argument about Chinese porcelain: a porcelain body, thrown, glazed and fired until the surface turns to glass. the Imperial…
Imitation Jun rose purple glaze plate
The piece is a plate, and Porcelain is the technique that decides how it reads. The pattern is laid before firing, so the colour sits under a clear glaze,…
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Doucai consecrated jar with lotus pattern and folded branches
This jar belongs to the long argument about Chinese porcelain: a doucai (contrasting-colour) porcelain body, thrown, glazed and fired until the surface tur…
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