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Photo: Paul Macapia
Vase with scroll design
Photo: Paul Macapia

Vase with scroll design

Date1465-87
Label TextA doucai ("joined colors") design is outlined in blue, then glazed and fired, and finally filled in with enamels over the glaze to be fired again at a lower temperature. The technical difficulty lies in obtaining both the brilliance of colors and maintaining an accurate demarcation between the underglaze-blue and overglaze enamels.
Object number51.89
Photo CreditPhoto: Paul Macapia
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Glaze, Pattern and Image: Decoration in Chinese Ceramics", September 7, 2002 - November 19, 2002 Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, "Chinese Art: A Seattle Perspective", December 22, 2007 - July 26, 2009 (12/22/2007 - 7/26/2009) Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Porcelain Stories: From China to Europe", February 17, 2000-May 7, 2000 (2/17/2000 - 5/7/2000) Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing.Published References"Handbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1951, p. 75 (b&w) Emerson, Julie, Jennifer Chen, & Mimi Gardner Gates, "Porcelain Stories, From China to Europe", Seattle Art Museum, 2000, pg. 65. Foong, Ping, Xiaojin Wu, and Darielle Mason. "An Asian Art Museum Transformed." Orientations vol. 51, no. 3 (May/June 2020): p. 61, reproduced fig. 22 (installation view).
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm), height 1 5/8 in. (4.13 cm), diameter Girth: 16 1/8 in.
MediumPorcelain with doucai decoration in underglaze-blue and overglaze green
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