Gourd-Shaped Bottle with Lotuses mid-16th century China Based on the shape of a calabash gourd, this type of bottle first appears in Chinese ceramics in the fourteenth century and becomes popular again in the sixteenth. Thought to hold the liquor of immortality, and carried by Daoist immortals, such gourds and the bottles in their shape are often associated with that religious tradition.. Gourd-Shaped Bottle with Lotuses. China. mid-16th century. Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under and colored enamels over transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware). Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Jiajing mark and period (1522-66). Ceramics

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Gourd-Shaped Bottle with Lotuses mid-16th century China Based on the shape of a calabash gourd, this type of bottle first appears in Chinese ceramics in the fourteenth century and becomes popular again in the sixteenth. Thought to hold the liquor of immortality, and carried by Daoist immortals, such gourds and the bottles in their shape are often associated with that religious tradition.. Gourd-Shaped Bottle with Lotuses. China. mid-16th century. Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under and colored enamels over transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware). Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Jiajing mark and period (1522-66). Ceramics

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