Vase with floral scrolls

An incised banana-leaf pattern circling the neck of this vase was roughly rendered over the main motif of lotuses placed around the belly. The glazed base was left with an unglazed footring edge. The popularity of this shape during the Yuan led to its appearance in all forms, from underglaze decorated, to monochrome glazed, to overglaze decorated wares. Pieces of this type have been found all over China, and have been intensively excavated from their place of manufacture in Jiangxi. The best, pale blue specimens were either painted with gold (WW 1982.4: 68, fig. 5) or appliquéd with beads arranged in patterns (KGXB 1986.1: pl. 18). A 1305 tomb gives evidence of the approximate time of manufacture of this type of vase.