Chinese Vessel with Landscape Motif

Snow settles across a tiny range of hills, painted in gray on a white cylinder.

This vessel with landscape motif is from Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, and dates to the 20th century. It is porcelain. Jingdezhen has been the center of Chinese porcelain production for centuries, and winter scenes in monochrome are a familiar subject there. This is a wide, straight sided cylinder with a rolled rim. A raised rectangular panel holds a snowy landscape of hills, trees and a little water. Pierced, lattice style borders and leaf molded bands frame it above and below. The glaze is a soft ivory white. It is 7 inches high and 7.5 in diameter.

A winter scene that never needs shoveling.