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Drum vase, splash peacock blue glaze
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Porcelain drum-shaped vase with a short neck, which flares out at the mouth. The vase is entirely covered with Splash Peacock Blue Glaze (frit, zinc, silica, and other ingredients). During the firing process, the glaze produced the amber background and blue crystals by chance.
Department of Asian Art
[Pucker Gallery Boston MA (by 2018)] gift; to Harvard Art Museums 2018.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Sue and Bernie Pucker in honor of Robert Mowry Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art Emeritus
Title: Drum vase, splash peacock blue glaze
Description:
Porcelain drum-shaped vase with a short neck, which flares out at the mouth.
The vase is entirely covered with Splash Peacock Blue Glaze (frit, zinc, silica, and other ingredients).
During the firing process, the glaze produced the amber background and blue crystals by chance.
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