A green, yellow and brown-glazed "Tradescant" storage jar. Ming dynasty (1368-1644), around 1600
With five loop handles to the shoulder and with an applied decoration of four large lotus flowers and scrolls to the body and a frieze of leaves in relief above the foot. Chips.
Height 32.5 cm
These types of vases are referred to as "Tradescant" jars, named after the English botanist John Tradescant (ca. 1570-1638) who collected curiosities during his travels. An identical jar of this type can be found in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Wares of this type were made in kilns in Guangdong and Fujian and exported to South-East Asia, Indonesia, to the Philippines and to the Pacific Area.
明 三彩貼花四系罐
可比 W. B. Honey, Ceramic Art of China and other Countries of the Far East, 倫敦 1945年, 圖版81號，S. Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, 倫敦 1953年, 圖版113B號 (Eumorfopoulos 收藏)，B. Harrison, Pusaka Heirloom Jars of Borneo, 牛津 1990年, 圖版77號
Literature
Compare an identical jar in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Similar jars are illustrated in: W. B. Honey, Ceramic Art of China and other Countries of the Far East, London 1945, pl. 81 and 102 (in the Victoria and Albert Museum), an in S. Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, London 1953, pl. 113B (Ex Eumorfopoulos Collection), and B. Harrison, Pusaka Heirloom Jars of Borneo, Oxford, 1990, pl. 77 (Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden)