https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/29505/full'Gu'-form vase with scholars and cranesca.1635-1644Overall: 41.3 x 21.8 cm (16 1/4 in.)Porcelain with underglaze cobalt blueThe Robert Murray Bell and Ann Walker Bell Collection of Chinese Blue and White PorcelainOrigin: Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, ChinaG99.1.171Chinese porcelain vase of Gu-form, cylindrical with flared lip and foot, and paneled mid section. It is incised band of flowerheads and scrolls at the mouth, and hatched mountain band below mid section, double lines at foot, and stepped base unglazed. Decorated in underglaze blue with three registers the upper with a scholar and two attendants in a pavilion overlooking a pond where a figure collects lotus blossoms. The middle register has four flying cranes with cloud scrolls, and the lower with pendant leaf tips.Chinese Ceramics InteractiveChinese Blue and White PorcelainChinese and Japanese Ceramics[]Asian CeramicsChinese Porcelain1857432107ChineseMing dynasty (1368-1644), Chongzhen period (1628-1644)None