Oval vase with cover
about 1640
Medium/TechniqueHard-paste porcelain, underglaze blue decoration
DimensionsHeight: 18.5 cm (7 5/16 in.)
Credit LineThe 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
On View
On viewClassificationsCeramics
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).
about 1590
about 1700-10
1780–90; central decoration added later
1710–25