Drum vase, splash peacock blue glaze
2017
Artists
Description
Porcelain drum-shaped vase with a short neck, which flares out at the mouth. The vase is entirely covered with Splash Peacock Blue Glaze (frit, zinc, silica, and other ingredients). During the firing process, the glaze produced the amber background and blue crystals by chance.
Dimensions
39.4 × 19.1 × 19.1 cm (15 1/2 × 7 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
Provenance
[Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA (by 2018)], gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018.
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