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A tall stoneware ovoid bottle on a straight footring with a narrow, short, flaring neck and a direct rim. It has four loop handles connecting the neck to shoulder, incised with floral decoration, and the upper half of the body is covered in green, amber, and yellow polychrome glazes. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bottle
1271 – 1368
Museum purchase for the Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1969/2.152
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
This yellow Meiping vase has a thin base that widens towards the top and is followed by a round shoulder, a narrow neck, and small opening that slightly flares out. Carved one the surface of the vase are patterns of clouds and dragons.
Meiping vase
1662 – 1722
Promised gift of William C. Weese, M.D., LSA ‘65
PG2020.2.1
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
An earthenware globular jar with high wide shoulder, tapering to a narrow base. The jar hasa wide, short neck with everted rim, and the rim is covered in an amber glaze, the body covered in an amber, green, cream, and blue peacock-feather pattern, stopping short high above the base.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
700 – 750
Museum purchase for the Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection, made possible by a gift from Kamer Aga-Oglu and other Friends of the Museum
1969/2.160
This photograph shows a view of stairs, doors, and banisters within the Imperial Palace in Beijing, China.
Eliot Porter (American (North American))
Imperial Palace, Peking
1980
Gift of Clayton E. Wilhite
1987/1.252.2
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