Garden Seat
15th century
Drum- or barrel-shaped ceramic seats were popular items for the scholar's garden and studio. This seat is made in the colorful fahua style, in which lead-based glazes were painted within raised slip outlines in a technique much like cloisonné. Here tree peonies bloom above rocks between bosses of monster masks.
Biscuit porcelain with lead silicate glaze
14 1/8 in. (35.88 cm)
Overall h.: 18 in.
Girth: 39 in.
Diam.: 9 1/4 in.
Gift of Mrs. Howard A. Frame in memory of Col. Jasper E. Brady, Jr.
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