Blue-and-white covered box with chrysanthemum design / Kiln Unknown, Vietnam
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1965/2.60A&B
- Title
- Blue-and-white covered box with chrysanthemum design
- Artist
- Kiln Unknown, Vietnam
- Artist Nationality
- Vietnamese
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with blue underglaze painting
- Object Creation Date
- 15th century
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Vietnam (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Vietnam (nation)
- Style/Group/Movement
- trade ware
- Dimensions
- 9.2 cm x 9.5 cm x 9.5 cm (3 5/8 in. x 3 3/4 in. x 3 3/4 in.)
- Century
- 15th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- box
- Secondary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Physical Description
- A round ceramic box (that is, a bowl with a fitted lid), decorated with chrysanthemum scrolls drawn in blue outline against a blue background. The blue is cobalt pigment painted before the application of a clear glaze.
- Subject Matter
- A small ceramic box decorated with chrysanthemum scrolls. Both the chrysanthemum motif and the technique of underglaze blue painting were adopted from Chinese prototypes, but the shape of this box, the tones of the cobalt blue, and the casual free-hand drawing are distintively Vietnamese.
- Covered boxes were used as burial objects to accompany the dead. This practice for the care of deceased people in afterlife preceded the succession of foreign religious influence from Buddhism, Hinduism to Islam. The stoneware trade ceramics were also objects of status and wealth, for the local kilns only produced less durable and inexpensive earthernwares. The round shape with a handle, and some of the design motifs were adopted from stone and metal reliquaries and architectural elements came with Indian Hinduism and Buddhism.
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Record
- 1965/2.60A&B
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"Blue-and-white covered box with chrysanthemum design; Kiln Unknown, Vietnam." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1965-sl-2.60a-amp-amp-sem-b/1965_2.60a_and_b.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
