Chinese Qing dynasty polychrome Ling-lung bottle vase

dc.contributor.otherVan Tilburg, J.A.
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-07T06:43:56Z
dc.date.available2016-07-07T06:43:56Z
dc.date.created1735
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionThis polychrome porcelain Ling-lung bottle vase is decorated with t’ao-t’ie masks and bats on a fine openwork background of stylised clouds beneath a leaf pattern around the neck and ruyi pattern on the shoulder, all in aubergine, green, black and yellow. It has a fret pattern around the mouth and a pointed border around the base. The base is sunken, glazed and marked with six engraved Kangxi character marks. This type of vessel was considered to be Devil’s work or Ling-lung because the sides were perforated and pierced, but the vessel did not leak the fluids that were put into it. This vase is an example of the San-ts’ai glazing technique also known as fa-hua. The porcelain is fired first without glaze to a porcelain temperature and it is then decorated with enamel colours and fired again at a much lower temperature, the colours being separated from each other either by incised lines or by small, carefully applied threads of slip, as in the case of this vase.en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipCeramic 101en_ZA
dc.format.extent320 mm x 220 mmen_ZA
dc.format.mediumOverglaze enamelled porcelainen_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/53985
dc.publisherDepartment of the University of Pretoria Arten_ZA
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUP-Art : paintings, drawings and sculpturesen_ZA
dc.relation.ispartofseriesD707976en_ZA
dc.rightsCopyright of the electronic version, University of Pretoria.en_ZA
dc.subjectLing-lung bottle vaseen_ZA
dc.titleChinese Qing dynasty polychrome Ling-lung bottle vaseen_ZA
dc.typeImageen_ZA

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