Asian pottery ming vase

Free shipping for many products! Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province. Porcelain with cobalt under colorless glaze. A Ming Dynasty blue and white bowl, decorated with continuosly Lotus to exterior and Vajra design to interior centre. Condition with minor two light hairline, please see the last enlargement, further no chip and free from restoration.

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After 97 years of rule by the Yuan, a Mongol-led dynasty founded by legendary warrior-ruler Genghis Khan and the first to make Beijing its capital called Dadu by the Yuan , China returned to Han Chinese rule in — the last imperial dynasty they ruled. The Ming dynasty as it was known ushered in an astonishing period of creativity, artistic and cultural restoration, development and expansion. As China slowly recovered from bloody internecine struggles, Zhu Yuanzhang, known as the Hongwu Emperor who reigned for 30 years from to , attempted to create one of the largest armies the world had ever known — he had a standing army of over one million soldiers and in Nanjing, the largest naval dockyards in the world — but he also understood the value of creativity and culture. The Ming vases took their inspiration from the incredibly intricate but very busy Islamic styles of the Yuan Mongols but the Emperor Hongwu re-established a far more dominant Chinese style in the Imperial court.

A blue-and-white Ming porcelain bottle. With globular body tapering into a tall neck, spreading towards the mouth; low foot and glazed base. Painted in outline and wash in rich violet blue round the body are the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove zhulin qixian in a landscape with growing bamboo, V-shaped grasses, a view of mountain peaks, and parts of a city wall appearing above mist, the design interrupted on one side by a cliff and swirling mist.