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INV047 A v.rare doucai enamel ginger jar with 天 mark Chenghua period 15thCentury
INV047 A v.rare doucai enamel ginger jar with 天 mark Chenghua period 15thCentury
INV047 A v.rare doucai enamel ginger jar with 天 mark Chenghua period 15thCentury
INV047 A v.rare doucai enamel ginger jar with 天 mark Chenghua period 15thCentury
INV047 A v.rare doucai enamel ginger jar with 天 mark Chenghua period 15thCentury
INV047 A v.rare doucai enamel ginger jar with 天 mark Chenghua period 15thCentury
INV047 A v.rare doucai enamel ginger jar with 天 mark Chenghua period 15thCentury
INV047 A v.rare doucai enamel ginger jar with 天 mark Chenghua period 15thCentury

INV047 A v.rare doucai enamel ginger jar with 天 mark Chenghua period 15thCentury

$ 2059.19

Availability: 84 in stock
  • Original/Reproduction: Antique Original
  • Maker: Jingdezhen
  • Age: 15th Century
  • Color: Multi-Color
  • Type: Ginger jar
  • Condition: Excellent condition without chips, overall with luscious transparent glaze with light green-ish tinge and brilliant doucai enamels of red, green, purple or brown and yellow applied over underglaze cobalt blue on a pure white paste consistent with age
  • Region of Origin: China
  • Primary Material: Porcelain & Pottery

    Description

    Dimension: 9.7cm Width, 9.4cm Height with cover
    Provenance: Acquired from a fisherman diver in West Java from a shipwreck in the Java Sea,
    Indonesia where 15
    th
    century trade was flourishing with the exchange of spices and exotic items such as pearls and fragrant woods.
    Description:
    A finely potted ginger jar or small guan jar of compressed globular body supported with a short rounded foot with a recessed base and a short neck topped with a rounded cover with a slight raised center with rounded sides decorated extensively with doucai overglaze enamels of red, green, purple or brown and yellow on a lush transparent glaze that covers the overall including the interior except for the foot and base of the cover with underglaze cobalt blue as outlines.
    On the shoulder is a scroll of lotus flower heads and its foliage, the main motif with a single winged dragon with extended snout on a pair of extending legs and a spread winged phoenix flying among clouds and crashing waves below with lotus petals surrounding above the foot with a
    天
    or
    ‘
    tian
    ’
    mark on the base. The cover has three stylized clouds similarly with colors of the enamels.
    The paste is very fine almost pure with little impurities of off-white color with smoothness can be felt on the unglazed parts, the cover has a small boss or bud similar with the base of the jar, the glaze is uneven at the base and the interior base, joint or luting lines are not visible which is further covered with its lush thick glaze with unctuous feel.
    The application of doucai is first started with the drawing of outlines onto an unglazed body using a paper-trace technique with cobalt oxide mixture, and redrawn for the parts that has not seeped thru the paper, glazed, dried, fired at high temperature,
    cooled,
    doucai enamels applied with brush onto the outlines without exact precision and re-fired at a lower temperature to set the overglaze transparent enamels which produces brilliant color with some hint of coarseness. This technique requires a team of numerous very experienced artisans with high degree of errors which some Japanese workshops are still in the running often claiming it is a very difficult and time consuming process.