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Cloisonne (metalwork with enamel decor) jar.  This jar uses brightly colored red, blue, green, yellow, and pinkish-purple enamelsto decorate its registers with intricate floral and vegetal patterns.  Mounted on a sturdy circular base, the body of the vase flares outward to its widest point, then curves inward more steeply toward the neck, from which a bowl-like mouth curves upwards.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Vase (one of a pair)
19th century
Gift of Doris Duke's Southeast Asian Art Collection
2005/1.470.2
Bencharong ware spittoon made in a private kiln in Jingdezhen, China, for Thai market. Probably ordered from Thai royalty, under the reign of Rama II (r. 1809-1824). It is the porcelain ware enameled with multiple colors, in the style called “five colors” (“bencharong” refers to five colors in Sanskrit). It has a large mouth and bulbous shape, with design of minor Buddhist deities Thepanom and Norasingh, and Chinese fire patterns.<br />
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bencharong Ware Spitton with Buddhist dieties Thapanom and Norasingh, and Chinese fire patterns
1800 – 1832
Gift of Doris Duke's Southeast Asian Art Collection
2005/1.464
Cloisonne (metalwork with enamel decor) jar.  This jar uses brightly colored red, blue, green, yellow, and pinkish-purple enamelsto decorate its registers with intricate floral and vegetal patterns.  Mounted on a sturdy circular base, the body of the vase flares outward to its widest point, then curves inward more steeply toward the neck, from which a bowl-like mouth curves upwards.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Vase (one of a pair)
19th century
Gift of Doris Duke's Southeast Asian Art Collection
2005/1.470.1
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