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Author: National Gallery of Art: Image title: Chinese Qing Dynasty, Blue and White Jar with Cover, 18th century, , Gift of Mrs. W. Murray Crane 1955.14.2
Sui dynasty (581–618).The jar is a utilitarian object with lugs on its shoulder to secure a cloth or rattan lid. Six Dynasties period, Western Jin dynasty stoneware sculpture highlighted in The Macau Museum in Lisbon, Portugal
An albarello (a name of Italian descent meaning "cell", plural: albarelli) also known as a "majolica drug jar" because of the type of tin glaze used is known as Majolica (also known as maiolica). [1] [2] This cylindrical storage unit or maiolica earthenware jar, is used for a plethora of purposes, most commonly for drug storage as a medicinal jar.
The famille verte enamels may be painted on the biscuit (unglazed pre-fired ware) with no underglaze blue, or over high-fired glaze, producing wares of different appearances. Wares with enamel painted on the biscuit usually have a solid-colour ground such as yellow, black or green, while those painted over the glaze may have a white ground.
Blue and white ware did not accord with Chinese taste at that time, the early Ming work Gegu Yaolun (格古要論) in fact described blue as well as multi-coloured wares as "exceedingly vulgar". [16] Blue and white porcelain however came back to prominence in the 15th century with the Xuande Emperor, and again developed from that time on. [14]
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