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Blue and white sleeve vase with lady
Blue and white sleeve vase with lady
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Blue and white sleeve vase with lady, gentleman and servants in a landscape Cyclically dated, Autumn 1637
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Blue and white sleeve vase with lady
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BATEA : 371
Simple name
vase
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ceramic; porcelain; vase; blue and white; rolwagen; Ming; transitional; landscape; writing; dated; anhua; China; figure; lady; woman; servant; inscription; narrative; 17th century
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A blue and white Rolwagen (sleeve vase) painted in vivid cobalt with a scene of servants waiting on a couple in a landscape, the lady holding up a flowering sprig, incised anhua scroll borders round the base and shoulders, the flared neck with a band of stiff sword-like leaves; the body with an inscription dating the piece to the autumn of 1637.
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porcelain
Description condition
fair, small chip at rim
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white
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blue
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43cm
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A poetic couplet of 10 characters which can be translated as 'Spilled wine warms the sleeve, flowers push the hat rim lower', followed by 'Autumn of dingchou year' i.e. 1637
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Case G-12
Production date
1637
Production period
Chongzhen
Production place
China
Production site name
Jingdezhen
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