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Chinese Celadon Vase with Malay Silver Mounts
China/Malay world
late 19th century
height: 25.5cm
This slender, tapering porcelain vase from China, with a green celadon glaze, is decorated on both faces with a panel of two dragons. The otherwise
unadorned sides have beagle-like mounts also in porcelain. The vase sits on a slightly flared foot. The neck is encased in engraved silver alloy and a similarly
engraved silver alloy lid fits into the mouth of the vase. The lid has a hollow spherical finial. A chain would have connected the lid to the mounts around the
neck but this no longer is present.
The origins of the silver mounts added to Chinese porcelain often cannot be identified, but the silver mounts on this vase are readily identifiable as having
come from the Malay world - most probably Malaysia, Borneo, Riau or Sumatra.
An earlier Chinese vase but with similar overtly-Malay mounts is illustrated in Miksic (2007, p.209).
References: Miksic, J., Icons of Art: The Collections of the National Museum of Indonesia, BAB Publishing, 2007.
Provenance: Scottish art market.
Inventory no.: 973
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Chinese Celadon Vase with Malay Silver Mounts
China/Malay world
late 19th century
height: 25.5cm
This slender, tapering porcelain vase from China, with a green celadon glaze, is decorated on both faces with a panel of two dragons. The otherwise
unadorned sides have beagle-like mounts also in porcelain. The vase sits on a slightly flared foot. The neck is encased in engraved silver alloy and a similarly
engraved silver alloy lid fits into the mouth of the vase. The lid has a hollow spherical finial. A chain would have connected the lid to the mounts around the
neck but this no longer is present.
The origins of the silver mounts added to Chinese porcelain often cannot be identified, but the silver mounts on this vase are readily identifiable as having
come from the Malay world - most probably Malaysia, Borneo, Riau or Sumatra.
An earlier Chinese vase but with similar overtly-Malay mounts is illustrated in Miksic (2007, p.209).
References: Miksic, J., Icons of Art: The Collections of the National Museum of Indonesia, BAB Publishing, 2007.
Provenance: Scottish art market.
Inventory no.: 973
This Item is available - Ask about this item
