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Porcelain Phoenix Tail Vase
Remedial conservation
Careful reconstruction, colour-filling using museum grade epoxies, sanding and polishing as original.
Date
Summer 2025
Location
Castle Ward, NI
Treatment
The vase was steam cleaned and assembled with museum grade adhesives. there were several areas of loss, and these were colour filled (pigments and epoxy resins) altered to match the translucency of the porcelain body
One of a pair of vases, porcelain, of fengweizun (凤尾尊 ‘phoenix tail’) type with baluster-shaped bodies and wide tall necks with flaring rims, made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, Kangxi period (1662–1722), c. 1700, decorated in underglaze blue with two continuous landscapes (one on the body and another on the neck) including mountains, waterways, rocks, trees and human figures, in the style of the artist Dong Qichang (董其昌 1555–1636). On display in the music room.
The vase was knocked over and broken on a busy open day.
