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A note from Dr. Frank Kramer's folder \"Oriental Art-Inventory/Copy #1\" (in Kramer's box 4, file #17), refers to this item as an oviform circular bodied altar vase in fine white jade with the dual five-tooth handle design and a formal stylized body decoration depicting \"continuity and abundance\". The vase is from the Ch'ien Lung period, c.1760 A.D. The price tag attached to the vase was $275.00."},{"label":"Part of","value":["Asian Art GettDigital Collection"]},{"label":"Provenance","value":"The Estate of Prof. Frank Kramer"},{"label":"Genre","value":["Artifacts"]},{"label":"Object Location","value":"J.12"},{"label":"Date","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1736 - D:00 M:00 Y:1795"},{"label":"Date Original","value":"18th century CE (1736-1795 CE)"},{"label":"Era","value":["Qianlong reign","Qing dynasty"]},{"label":"Measurement","value":"Height: 11.8 cm; Width at mouth: 4.4 cm; Width at widest part of body including handles: 9.3 cm; Width at base: 4.9 cm; Thickness: 5 mm"},{"label":"Medium","value":["Light green jade, slightly mottled, good translucency, well polished","Jade"]},{"label":"Country of Origin","value":["China"]},{"label":"Description","value":"This Hu or Hu-lu vessel is a developed form of the archaic sacrificial Wine Jar. From the Song dynasty to the latter part of the eighteenth century A.D., such vessels were used as \"storage containers\" of \"the anointment fluid\". It was from such jars that the sacred fluid was poured into the bow-like hsi or lei. Vases of this form usually function in the \"washing of hands\" ceremonies during the Marriage Festivities. There are two rows of tooth-like projections along the two sides of the vessel. Its meaning in the ritual emblems, created in jade, vary from different experts' conclusive findings. The numerical combination of tooth-like projections shown on each side of the body of the vase operates on the standard Chinese formula (the two side flanges with five tooth-like ridges indicating the Five Elements of War, Fire, Metal, Wood, and Earth). The total numeral arrangement shown as handles on two sides of the vessel is ten, which means \"Ten vows of protection\", made to the Gods who were entrusted with the guardianship of Childbirth and Maidenhood. Vases with toothed edges were used to tender to childless Emperors as a token of \"Prayer that the son may come quickly.\" The thin register at the neck of the vase carries some decorative auspicious symbols of bronze vessels, with a central circular motif that has three shallow incises of swirling, comma-shaped grooves. The surface of the body of the vessel has some interlaced mythological motifs similar to those of the Shang civilization. They could be natural symbols (only if it were possible to identify them with animals or creatures that exist in nature.) So far, I have not been able to confidently rely on certain motifs often found on archaic bronze vessels to identify these patterns. No art historian could assume that a given motif always has a certain meaning, no matter how much he has exhausted his references. First, motifs from ancient times have never been completely recorded or deciphered in a systematic scheme. Second, through times, they come and go. Regardless of the fact that these patterns do not match with any preceding ones in textbooks or catalogues, the overall design is visually dynamic."},{"label":"Title","value":"Oviform circular bodied altar vase"},{"label":"Rights","value":"Materials available through GettDigital encompass a wide range of works, many of which are in the public domain. However, some items may still be protected by copyright or other intellectual property rights. Users are responsible for determining the copyright status of materials and ensuring compliance with all applicable laws when reproducing or publishing these works. Items in our GettDigital Collections are for educational use. For assistance in understanding rights, obtaining permissions, or requesting files for publication or research purposes, please contact us at <a href=\"www.gettysburg.edu/special-collections/ask-an-archivist\">www.gettysburg.edu/special-collections/ask-an-archivist</a>"},{"label":"Reference URL","value":"http://cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4016coll6/id/419"}],"description":"Oviform circular bodied altar vase","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/d1d6dc50-033e-4dd6-ae95-726f6f9142a3/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Oviform circular bodied altar vase","height":768,"width":510,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/d1d6dc50-033e-4dd6-ae95-726f6f9142a3/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/d1d6dc50-033e-4dd6-ae95-726f6f9142a3","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2]}]},"height":768,"width":510},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/d1d6dc50-033e-4dd6-ae95-726f6f9142a3/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/d1d6dc50-033e-4dd6-ae95-726f6f9142a3/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/d1d6dc50-033e-4dd6-ae95-726f6f9142a3/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/logo"}