Ming Dynasty baluster jar

An image of Baluster Jar. Ruyi heads decorate the neck, and the shoulders have four roundels containing characters inscribed 'five sons graduate' reserved on diaper ground. The central scene is painted with five sons successful in the examinations returning home to their father, each with an attendant and a parasol, and visiting the Queen Mother of the West in the Moon, a hare with a pestle and mortar near her feet, above ruyi-shaped lappets round the foot. Hard-paste porcelain, thrown, decorated in underglaze-blue, height 19.0 cm, diameter 17.2 cm, circa 1400-1600. Ming Dynasty. Chinese.

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Baluster Jar. Ruyi heads decorate the neck, and the shoulders have four roundels containing characters inscribed 'five sons graduate' reserved on diaper ground. The central scene is painted with five sons successful in the examinations returning home to their father, each with an attendant and a parasol, and visiting the Queen Mother of the West in the Moon, a hare with a pestle and mortar near her feet, above ruyi-shaped lappets round the foot. Hard-paste porcelain, thrown, decorated in underglaze-blue, height 19.0 cm, diameter 17.2 cm, circa 1400-1600. Ming Dynasty. Chinese.

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Accession Number: C.714-1991
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/25.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 837 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 686.72kB
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 25/1
Captured: 2008:02:07 15:55:08

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15th Century 16th Century attendants baluster vase blue and white Chinese clothes clothing costume Fitz_AA glazed hard-paste porcelain jar Ming Dynasty porcelain ruyi sons thrown underglaze vase

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