Dimensions: Width: 22cm, Height: 47cm

Chinese Qing Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain Goblet GU Vase. The porcelain potted in a traditional Gu beaker shape vase, having baluster shaped body, large, tall and thick, bulging belly on the mid, trumpet-shaped on the tall neck, raised with high round flaring foot base, like reverse bowl with splayed foot base and deep concave. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white base color which contrast against wucai design blue fine color, depicted of mountain landscape with peace river sampan boar, flowers bloom, dense tree and small pavilion. Many mountains in China are sacred, some to Daoist, some to Buddhists and some to both. In folk religion each mountain has its own deity associated with it. The pictogram character for mountain sea represent an all encompassing phrase for the whole world shan hai. Mountains represent the yang element in the landscape and as such connect to the governing yang element in China the Emperor. Mountain is one of the eight trigrams in Feng Shui and Yi Jing. Of these Taishan is considered the most important and stones from the mountain were often placed in towns across China as a lucky charm.The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark greyish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim.

In EXCELLENT condition over all.
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