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Wine bottle with decoration of landscape and poem

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The object is a wine bottle with a decoration of a landscape and poem. The bottle's base is a hexagonal prism with a flat top and bottom. The base is white with blue illustrations of people in a boat on one side and a landscape on the other. The body of the bottle above the base is bulbous and white with blue illustrations of a plant with flowers and a bird. The neck of the bottle has a blue and white diamond pattern on it. The mouth of the bottle is black. The base has a blue landscape illustration on the top. The background of the image is gray. The bottle appears to have been made by the artist Qing.

Artwork details

Date:
mid-17th century
Medium:
Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)
Culture:
China
Dimensions:
468 × 624 px
Museum record:
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