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# Blue and White Garlic-Head Bottle Vase with Figures in a Landscape, Early Ming Dynasty

Blue and white bottle vase with a garlic-head mouth, painted with a fisherman in a boat and figures in a fenced landscape below a lotus scroll, early Ming dynasty.

**Period:** [Ming Dynasty](https://realrareantiques.com/ming-dynasty/)
**Category:** [Ming Dynasty Porcelain](https://realrareantiques.com/product-category/antique-chinese-porcelain/ming-dynasty-porcelain/)
**Dimensions:** Height 45 cm · Width 17 cm
**Reference:** RRA-0158
**Availability:** Available

## Description

A [blue and white](https://realrareantiques.com/chinese-blue-and-white-porcelain/) porcelain bottle vase with a rounded, garlic-head mouth, a tall neck and a broad body that narrows to a flared foot. The mouth is painted with a bird with outspread wings among clouds, and the neck with further clouds. A scroll of lotus flowers and leaves circles the shoulder. The body carries a continuous landscape: a fisherman in a small boat casts his line among reeds, a figure with flowing hair stands on the bank below, and other figures walk beside a fence, near a gnarled tree in full leaf. A ring of petal panels, each enclosing a cloud motif, decorates the foot.

The blue is deep, with darker touches where it gathered, under a glaze with an overall crackle. The flat base is unglazed and fired a warm orange. We attribute the vase to the [early Ming dynasty](https://realrareantiques.com/early-ming-dynasty/).

**Learn more:** [The Ming Dynasty](https://realrareantiques.com/ming-dynasty/)

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