Red Baluster-Shaped Vase

Description Provenance Credit

Description Underglaze red, faintly crackled. Flame-like streaks. Base with dull crackled apple-green glaze. Neck ground down. Japanese gold-dust lacquer cover with rosettes.

Provenance Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters

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Creator

Chinese (Artist)

Period

1662-1722

Medium

porcelain with ox-blood glaze and lacquer
(Ceramics)

Accession Number

49.1558

Measurements

Lid: H: 15/16 × Diam: 4 5/8 in. (2.4 × 11.7 cm); Overall Height with Lid: 15 3/8 in. (39 cm); Height without lid: 14 5/16 × Diam: 7 1/4 in. (36.3 × 18.42 cm)

Geographies

China (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View