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A porcelain bottle vase of double gourd form on a flared footring with tall narrow neck and the reverse side flat with a slot for hanging. The vase is outlined in underglaze blue and has a six-character Wanli mark in a plaque framed by a polychrome overglaze lotus leaf on the top, and a lotus flower on the bottom. The front is decorated with underglaze blue and polychrome overglaze enamels to depict a pair of phoenixes flying among clouds on the upper bulb, and two phoenixes facing each other among an earthly flower garden on the lower bulb. These are confined between<em> lingzhi</em>-shaped clouds and lotus meander borders, with banana leaf lappets around the rim, all covered in a clear glaze. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Double-Gourd Wall Vase
1573 – 1620
Gift of Marian Doering in memory of Paul M. Doering
1979/2.12
A buff stoneware globular jar, with a tapered base and wide, high shoulders, tapering to a wide, short neck with an everted rim. The work is covered in a mottled cobalt blue glaze. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
600 – 649
Gift of Mrs. Caroline I. Plumer for the James Marshall Plumer Collection
1962/1.100
A porcelain hemispherical bowl with direct rim on a footring, the interior base is painted to depict a lion playing with a ball that looks like a coin, surrounded by a flowing ribbon. The bowl is covered in a clear glaze. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bowl
1368 – 1644
Gift of Mr. Jennis R. Galloway through the Friends of the Museum of Art
1972/1.155
A small, thin, porcelain bowl with an everted, foliate rim, on a foot ring.  It is painted in an underglaze blue decoration of birds and flowers, separated into eight panels on both the interior and exterior, and covered in a clear glaze. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bowl
1573 – 1619
Museum purchase made possible by the Augusta Plumer Weiss Memorial Fund
1977/2.19
A porcelain baluster-shaped jar on a footring with a short wide neck, topped with a domed cover with flaring flange and a peaked knob. It is covered in powder blue underglaze with four large scalloped reserved panels on the body alternating with smaller reserves on the shoulder and lid: the large reserves containing flowering plants, a landscape, and two scenes of the hundred antiquities, painted in underglaze blue and red, and overglaze enamels; the smaller reserves containing flowering plants in underglaze blue and red. The jar is covered in clear glaze, then painted with overglaze gold floral meander, which is wearing away. The jar, lid, and teakwood stand are acquisition numbers 1982/1.206A, 1982/1.206B, and 1982/1.206C. They are part of a ten-piece garniture set which includes: jars, 1982/1.206A, 1982/1.206B, 1982/1.206C,  1982/1.207A, 1982/1.207B, and 1982/1.207C; vases, 1982/1.208, 1982/1.215, 1982/1.216, and 1982/1.220; plates, 1982/1.212, 1982/1.213, and bowls 1982/1.221, and1982/1.22.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Covered Jar (Jar)
1700 – 1722
Gift of the Estate of Hobart Taylor, Jr.
1982/1.206A

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Covered Jar (Stand)
1700 – 1722
Gift of the Estate of Hobart Taylor, Jr.
1982/1.207C
A porcelain globular jar tapering to foot with a short neck with copper-wire repair, and a domed cap lid. It is painted with multiple shades of underglaze blue to portray peony meander around the body between lappet borders around the shoulder and foot, then covered in a clear glaze.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Jar
1662 – 1722
Gift of the Estate of Hobart Taylor, Jr.
1982/1.209A&B
A porcelain fluted bowl with a scalloped rim on a foot ring. The exterior is painted with fish and aquatic plants, the interior rim is painted with a zigzag border. The bowl is covered with a clear glaze.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bowl
1662 – 1722
Gift of the Estate of Hobart Taylor, Jr.
1982/1.214
This porcelain, bottle-shaped vase with globular body has a tall flaring footring. The tall, flaring neck, has a protruding flange below two globular bulbs at the lower portion of the neck. The body of the vase is covered in powder blue underglaze and has four reserves, two cirular and two rectangular, placed around the body. The white base has underglaze blue double circles, covered in a clear glaze. The round reserves are painted with polychrome overglaze enamels to depict a <em>qilin</em> and a lion in landscapes, alternating with images of birds among flowering branches in the rectangular reserves. The body of the vase is covered in powder blue ground with overglaze gold enamel floral sprays and banana leaf lappets around the neck. There is a paper label with "Chait Galleries New York" applied to base.  <br /> This vase is part of a ten-piece garniture set which includes: jars, 1982/1.206A, 1982/1.206B, 1982/1.206C, 1982/1.207A, 1982/1.207B, and 1982/1.207C; vases, 1982/1.208, 1982/1.215, 1982/1.216, 1982
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Vase
1700 – 1722
Gift of the Estate of Hobart Taylor, Jr.
1982/1.216
A porcelain bottle vase of double gourd form on a flared footring with a tall, narrow neck; the reverse side is flat with a slot for hanging. The vase is outlined in underglaze blue and has a six-character Wanli mark in a plaque. The front is decorated with underglaze blue five-clawed dragons among clouds—five dragons on the lower bulb and one on the upper—confined between floral borders. The vase is covered in a clear glaze. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Double-Gourd Wall Vase
1573 – 1620
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1986/2.13
A porcelain ewer with a cylindrical body on a foot ring and a tall, narrow neck. It has a flat, wide, ear-shaped handle, covered with underglaze blue floral meander and clear glaze, and a replacement silver spout and domed lid.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Ewer with Silver Fittings
1403 – 1424
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Pope for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection
1968/1.50
A small jar with a slightly tapered base and a shoulder that tapers to a narrow tall neck with a direct rim.  It is painted with underglaze cobalt blue floral designs, and covered in a clear glaze. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Small Jar
1400 – 1599
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1993/2.28
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