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Oval vase with cover
Chinese Export
about 1640
Medium/Technique
Hard-paste porcelain, underglaze blue decoration
Dimensions
Height: 18.5 cm (7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
The G. Ephis Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated anonymously, Charles Bain Hoyt Fund, John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, Mary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund, William Francis Warden Fund, Tamara Petrosian Davis Sculpture Fund, John Lowell Gardner Fund, Seth K. Sweetser Fund, H. E. Bolles Fund, and funds by exchange from the Kiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection-Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession Number2012.579a-b
DescriptionOvoid shape with domed lid. Body decorated in underglaze blue with floral sprays, including cherry blossoms and lotus flowers. The lid decorated with a small figure in a boat with vertical portion of a structure at right, in Ming Transitional style.
InscriptionsPaper label on underside: "Collection G. Ephis"
ProvenanceNovember 22, 2009, sold by Edward Pranger Oriental Art Gallery, Amsterdam, to the G. Ephis collection (private collector), France; 2012, sold by the G. Ephis collection to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 24, 2012).