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Gourd-Shaped Vase with Gourds on Vines and Bats in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2023
Title: Gourd-shaped vase with gourds on vines and bats
Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi period (1662–1722)
Date: early 18th century
Culture: China
Medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)
Dimensions: H. 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm); Diam. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm); Diam. of rim: 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm); Diam. of foot: 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Purchase by subscription, 1879
Accession Number: 79.2.467
Beyond the appeal of its sinuous form and elegant blue-and-white decoration, this gourd-shaped vase would have been treasured for the layers of auspicious meaning encoded in its decoration. The image of gourds on vines is a rebus, or visual word puzzle, for “fortune and prosperity through ten thousand generations” (fulu wandai), while the combination of bats and gourds forms a second rebus for “good fortune and wealth” (fulu).
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/48559
Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi period (1662–1722)
Date: early 18th century
Culture: China
Medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)
Dimensions: H. 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm); Diam. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm); Diam. of rim: 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm); Diam. of foot: 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Purchase by subscription, 1879
Accession Number: 79.2.467
Beyond the appeal of its sinuous form and elegant blue-and-white decoration, this gourd-shaped vase would have been treasured for the layers of auspicious meaning encoded in its decoration. The image of gourds on vines is a rebus, or visual word puzzle, for “fortune and prosperity through ten thousand generations” (fulu wandai), while the combination of bats and gourds forms a second rebus for “good fortune and wealth” (fulu).
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/48559
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