This guan-shaped pot is decorated with water birds, insects, plants and flowers all in a silver-blue under a crackled glaze. The band on the shoulder contains Buddhist symbols and around the base is a lotus pattern border. The base is slightly sunken, glazed and unmarked. The Chinese language is full of homonyms and allowed artists to express wishes and aspirations by depicting animals in particular settings. Ducks and geese are symbols of conjugal happiness for they are reputed to pair for life.Ceramic 10
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Photograph of Chinese covered jar with fish in lotus pond decoration, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), The ...
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This round bottle-shaped porcelain vase decorated with a flambé polychrome glaze and a sculptured hi...
This tall grey ware Southern Song dynasty yingqing funerary jar covered with a grey-green glaze is d...
This is a light blue-glazed taibai zun (taibai water pot) in the shape of a beehive with a shallow f...
This square polychrome lidded jar is decorated with four green panels of different coloured leaves o...
These round baluster-shaped lidded jars are decorated with formal scrolling lotus flowers in undergl...
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This underglaze blue octagonal porcelain vase is decorated with flowerheads on the shoulder and two ...
This early Kangxi famille verte porcelain saucer-dish is decorated principally in red and green with...
This covered jar has a teakwood cover, a short neck, slanting shoulders, a deep bulging body taperin...
This is a large blue and white jar with a lipped mouthrim, a short and straight neck, sloping should...
These rare tall round bottle-shaped Famille noir porcelain vases of unusual proportions called by th...
This is a large jar with an outward-turning mouthrim, a short and straight neck, slanting shoulders,...
Photograph of Chinese covered jar with fish in lotus pond decoration, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), The ...
Photograph of Chinese covered jar with fish in lotus pond decoration, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), The ...
This round bottle-shaped porcelain vase decorated with a flambé polychrome glaze and a sculptured hi...
This tall grey ware Southern Song dynasty yingqing funerary jar covered with a grey-green glaze is d...
This is a light blue-glazed taibai zun (taibai water pot) in the shape of a beehive with a shallow f...