Baluster vase; China, 1980s-90s.

Baluster vase; China, 1980s-90s.
Glazed porcelain.
Presents seal on the base.
Measurements: 85 x 34 x 34 cm.
Ornamental vase made of glazed porcelain whose aesthetic follows the style known as Green Family. It presents a very frequent typology inside the Chinese production, derived from the old "zun", and they combine the enameled decoration with motives in relief in the neck pairs of lions of fo protectors in the sides.
The predominant tonality indicates that this is a piece that belongs to the Green Family, a western denomination for a style of Chinese polychrome porcelain derived from wucai (literally, "five colors"). Wucai was created during the Ming dynasty and has been widely used in China ever since. It is characterized by only some of the motifs being executed in underglaze cobalt blue, while the rest of the decoration is applied already on the glaze. In addition, black glaze is added for the outlines, in the early days covered with a translucent green glaze to fix it. The Green Family style is a type of wucai called yingcai ("solid colors"), which is characterized by the predominance of copper oxide green. The name yingcai refers to the quality of the glazes, crystalline, being mostly applied on the glaze.