EditorialPear-shaped bottle vase with flowering plants, Bottle-shaped porcelain vase with a pear-shaped body and spreading neck, painted in underglaze blue. Blooming plants, the four season flowers, are depicted on the belly: peony (spring), lotus (summer), chr...
EditorialEuropean peony, Paeonia officinalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin ...
EditorialVase with pheasants and horses in landscapes, Porcelain vase with an upward-running body, round shoulder and a narrow, spreading neck with a raised edge, painted in underglaze blue. The belly is divided into two parts. The upper part with two pheasants...
EditorialTree Peony: Chozan of Chojiya (Chojiya uchi Chozan, Kao), from the series "Parodies of Floating-world Beauties as Flowers (Ukiyo bijin hana mitate)". Suzuki Harunobu ?? ??; Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770. Date: 1764-1774. Dimensions: 27.5 x 20.2 cm (10 3/4 x ...
EditorialThe Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Sukeroku in the Joruri "Sukeroku Kuruwa no Natori-gusa" (Sukeroku: Peony of the Pleasure Quarters), from the Last Act of Part Two of the Play Nanakusa Yosooi Soga (The Seven Guises of Soga), Performed at the Nakamura The...
EditorialCovered Oil Bottle with Peony Sprays. Korean. Date: 1100-1199. Dimensions: H. 6.3 cm (2 1/2 in.); diam. 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.). Stoneware with underglaze incised decoration. Origin: Korean Peninsula.
EditorialIncense Burner with Peony Scroll. China. Date: 1050-1127. Dimensions: H. 32.1 cm (12 5/8 in.); diam. 27.8 cm (10 15/16 in.). Cizhou ware; stoneware, slip-coated with underglaze sgraffito decoration and overglaze painting in iron brown. Origin: China.
EditorialJar with Lotus and Peony Scrolls and Lion-Mask Handles. China. Date: 1437. Dimensions: H. 43.0 cm (16 15/16 in.); diam. 41.6 cm (16 3/8 in.). Porcelain painted in underglaze blue. Origin: China.
EditorialJar with Sprays of Peony, Lily, and Plum and Lid with Small Fish. China. Date: 1201-1250. Dimensions: H. 22.8 cm (9 in.); diam. 24.1 cm (9 1/2 in.). Jizhou ware; stoneware painted in underglaze iron slip, with incised detail. Origin: Jiangxi.