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Xuande Emperor
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Read about the Xuande Emperor.

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"Power and Glory" exhibition website
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Visit the exhibition website to discover more about the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and the objects used at court.

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Jingdezhen
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Read a bit about the “Porcelain Capital”.

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Vase with Dragons and Cloud Design
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See a meiping vase in the IMA collection from the Xuande period (1426-1435) of the Ming dynasty. Meiping means “prunus” or “plum blossom” vase.

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Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644
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Platter with Grape Design
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See a blue and white ware platter from the Yongle period (1403-1424) of the Ming dynasty.

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Vase with Painted Floral Scrolls
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Often used for flower arrangements, meiping vases, like this one in the IMA collection, are narrow at the base and broad at the shoulders.

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Bowl with Lotus and Floral Designs
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See a blue and white ware bowl from the Yongle period (1403-1424) of the Ming dynasty.

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Bowl with Loquat and Floral Design
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Indianapolis Museum of Art
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Asian Art Museum's Li He describes some of the vases created during the Ming Dynasty.

A groundbreaking exhibition, Power and Glory was the first exhibition to focus on the full range of Ming dynasty (1368-1644) court arts. More than 200 treasures were on view, including gold and jade, paintings and porcelains, from China’s greatest museums, many never before seen outside of China. The works illustrated how this ancient dynasty surpassed the technology of its time to become a global leader in maritime power, mass production and artistic accomplishment.

Organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Palace Museum, the Nanjing Municipal Museum and the Shanghai Museum.

Dear Mrs. He Li, long time no hear, have sent you in the past various questions about chinese ceramics but than we lost contact when you went to a new location. it was quite a surprise when i Saw you on this side when i was looking for Xuande Qinghua. Hope you are doing well with best regards Rudy van de Kerkhof Holland
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00:00:05 The emperors Yongle and Xuande were remembered as very good patronage of art and good connoisseur of porcelain.

00:00:14 So, under their patronage, the imperial shop in Jingdezhen in South East produced many, many new types of productions;

00:00:24 one of them is this blue and white vase called the Meiping. Meiping, literally, meaning a plum vase.

00:00:34 During the Ming period, the Meiping was very popular because the emperor Xuande loved this shape and loved the blue and white.

00:00:42 The decorations difference is the only use of cobalt, which is imported from Islamic world, to paint the design before glazing and then glazed and fired.