Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1522-1566 (circa)
Materials:porcelain, gold,
Technique:gilded, glazed, kinrande,
Subjects:horse/ass symbol reading/writing
Dimensions:Height: 44.70 centimetres
Description:
Hexagonal double-gourd-shaped porcelain bottle with overglaze red and ‘kinrande’ decoration. This gourd-shaped porcelain bottle has a larger lower bulb, smaller upper bulb and tapering neck. It is faceted with six sides and stands on a low foot ring with a recessed glazed base. Covered in an iron-red monochrome glaze, it is further ornamented in ‘kinrande’ decoration with flying horses alternately facing forwards and backwards around the foot, alternating peach boughs and ‘lingzhi’ sprays above and auspicious characters reading ‘shou’, meaning longevity, written in different archaic scripts below the waist. Around the waist are flowers and the ‘ba gua’ [Eight Trigrams]. Above ‘lingzhi’ and peach are again alternated, the neck is decorated with feathery plantain leaves and there is a plain gold band around the rim.
IMG
![图片[1]-bottle BM-1936-1012.192-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00255241_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-bottle BM-1936-1012.192-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00355358_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The Eight Trigrams are the basic forms of the ‘Yijing’ [Book of Changes]. Each is comprised of three whole and broken lines and is commonly employed as an auspicious symbol with Daoist overtones. Two smaller hexagonal double gourds, combining ‘kinrande’ with overglaze red and overglaze green glazes respectively, are in the Fukuyama Kinnenkan, Japan.
Materials:porcelain, gold,
Technique:gilded, glazed, kinrande,
Subjects:horse/ass symbol reading/writing
Dimensions:Height: 44.70 centimetres
Description:
Hexagonal double-gourd-shaped porcelain bottle with overglaze red and ‘kinrande’ decoration. This gourd-shaped porcelain bottle has a larger lower bulb, smaller upper bulb and tapering neck. It is faceted with six sides and stands on a low foot ring with a recessed glazed base. Covered in an iron-red monochrome glaze, it is further ornamented in ‘kinrande’ decoration with flying horses alternately facing forwards and backwards around the foot, alternating peach boughs and ‘lingzhi’ sprays above and auspicious characters reading ‘shou’, meaning longevity, written in different archaic scripts below the waist. Around the waist are flowers and the ‘ba gua’ [Eight Trigrams]. Above ‘lingzhi’ and peach are again alternated, the neck is decorated with feathery plantain leaves and there is a plain gold band around the rim.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The Eight Trigrams are the basic forms of the ‘Yijing’ [Book of Changes]. Each is comprised of three whole and broken lines and is commonly employed as an auspicious symbol with Daoist overtones. Two smaller hexagonal double gourds, combining ‘kinrande’ with overglaze red and overglaze green glazes respectively, are in the Fukuyama Kinnenkan, Japan.
© Copyright
The copyright of the article belongs to the author, please keep the original link for reprinting.
THE END
