작품 상세

inspired by a metal prototype, superbly potted with a pear-shaped body resting on a bulbous stem and stepped foot, gracefully rising to a waisted neck sweeping up to a flared rim with rolled lip, the body set with a long facetted spout tapering to a lipped rim, boldly painted around the body in vibrant cobalt-blue tones with characteristic ‘heaping and piling’ with hibiscus blooms wreathed by a foliate meander of trefoil leaves, all above a band of stylised flowerheads against blue washes and a row of lotus lappets between raised fillets, the knopped stem encircled by a simplified key-fret band above stylised lappets and tri-lobed ruyi motifs, all above a band of hemispherical ball flowers arranged in a chevron manner, the underside of the rim and the foot encircled by a band of pearls on a ground of blue wash, the long spout painted with a stylised lotus meander between broad ruyi lappets, the top of the rim encircled by a band of stylised floral scroll within line borders, applied overall with a transparent unctuous glaze, save for two unglazed rings on the base revealing the greyish buff body