MAKE A MEME View Large Image Chinese - "Three-String" Vase ("The Peach Bloom Vase") - Walters 49155 - Profile.jpg This vase of apparently simple shape swells slowly as it rises from its foot At the shoulder it contracts sharply and at the neck there are three ...
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Keywords: Chinese - "Three-String" Vase ("The Peach Bloom Vase") - Walters 49155 - Profile.jpg This vase of apparently simple shape swells slowly as it rises from its foot At the shoulder it contracts sharply and at the neck there are three sharp-edged collars punctuating a point of union and breaking the glassy smoothness of the body of the vessel; the mouth spreads slightly Beneath the glassy surface one can detect subtle modulations from dull pink to red to grayish green - the whole offering a seemingly infinite variety of nuances In Chinese the color is sometimes called kidney-bean red and the shape is that of a three-string vase after the rings on the neck The vase was made as one of a set of eight different vessels all intended for the scholar's table There were flower vases of different shapes together with vessels used for washing brushes and holding red seal-paste The glaze is now thought to be the result of sandwiching a layer of copper pigment between two layers of clear glaze- the end-product of a period of experimentation with copper red glazes that began in the late 17th century The shape of the vase is an intellectualized and refined version of Song Sung Dynasty wares Evidently there was court patronage; this vase may once have been owned by the first Prince Yi I 1686-1730 thirteenth son of the Kangxi K'ang-hsi emperor and ancestor of its 19th-century owner between 1710 1722 porcelain with peach bloom glaze cm 20 2 accession number 49 155 4668 Cai Yuan Tsai Yuan Prince Yi I d 1861 Peking Mrs Mary J Morgan New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Sale American Art Association New York March 8 1886 lot 341 William T Walters city Baltimore Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum 1931 by bequest Acquired by William T Walters 1886 Reign Mark In blue underglaze Kangxi K'ang-hsi Masterpieces of Chinese Porcelain Walters The Taste of Maryland Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 place of origin China Walters Art Museum license Art of China in Masterpieces of Chinese Porcelain Walters Chinese porcelain in the Walters Art Museum Three-string vases Porcelains of the Qing Dynasty Copper red glaze
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