The Fonthill Vase in the National Museum of Decorative Art, DublinFonthill vase, by Barthélemy Remy, valet of François Roger de Gaignières, 1713. The drawings in the upright and upleft corner depict the coat-of-arms of Louis the Great of Hungary
The Fonthill Vase, also called the Gaignières-Fonthill Vase after François Roger de Gaignières and William Beckford's Fonthill Abbey, is a bluish-white Qingbai Chinese porcelain vase dated to 1300–1340 AD.[1] It is famous as the earliest documented Chinese porcelain object to have reached Europe.[1][2]
The vase is an early piece of Jingdezhen porcelain, and comes from the final years of Qingbai ware in Jingdezhen before it was replaced by the new blue and white porcelain, which started in earnest after 1320.[3][2] It is an unusual "experimental" vase with applied relief decoration in the medallions, in the usual monochrome blueish-white Qingbai glaze.[4]
After probably arriving in Europe when nearly new, the history of the vase can mostly be documented. Eventually it reached the National Museum of Ireland in 1882,[4][5] and in 2018 was on display in the "Curator's Choice" permanent display at the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History (Collins Barracks, Dublin).[6]
^ abVictoria and Albert Museum
^ abStacey Pierson (2007), Collectors, Collections, and Museums: the Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain, 1560–1960, Oxford: Peter Lang, ISBN 978-3-03-910538-0, p. 17.
^The Pilgrim Art: Cultures of Porcelain in World History by Robert Finlay p.157
^ abLauren Arnold, Princely Gifts and Papal Treasures: the Franciscan mission to China and its influence on the arts of the West, 1999:133ff
^Cite error: The named reference pierson 2007 p18 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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