Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1590-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bird servant/domestic worker fruit landscape scholar reading/writing
Dimensions:Height: 27 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bottle with underglaze blue decoration and cut-down neck. This pear-shaped bottle has a cut-down neck and stands on a broad foot ring with a glazed base. It is painted with a design outlined in dark blue and infilled with shades of paler blue. A scholar is shown in a garden lounging across his rectangular writing desk to look at his servant who is presenting him with a goose. The scholar is typically dressed in a long cross-over gown and his servant wears trousers and a short robe. A hastily executed waterscape with mountains is painted on the other side of the bottle.
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![图片[1]-bottle BM-1957-1216.4-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00260945_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-bottle BM-1957-1216.4-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00240018_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The scholar who is approached by a servant carrying a goose may represent the famous calligrapher Wang Xizhi (c.303-c. 361). Wang admired the fluid motion of the goose’s neck and it is said to have inspired a natural fluidity in his calligraphy. He is attributed with having written the famous ‘Preface to the Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion’ in AD 353.Bottles of this type were exported in large volume to Japan, the Middle East and Europe, where they inspired the production of copies in inferior local materials. Such a blue-and-white porcelain bottle made in Japan is in the British Museum (given by Sir A. W Franks, JA F.1006).
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bird servant/domestic worker fruit landscape scholar reading/writing
Dimensions:Height: 27 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bottle with underglaze blue decoration and cut-down neck. This pear-shaped bottle has a cut-down neck and stands on a broad foot ring with a glazed base. It is painted with a design outlined in dark blue and infilled with shades of paler blue. A scholar is shown in a garden lounging across his rectangular writing desk to look at his servant who is presenting him with a goose. The scholar is typically dressed in a long cross-over gown and his servant wears trousers and a short robe. A hastily executed waterscape with mountains is painted on the other side of the bottle.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The scholar who is approached by a servant carrying a goose may represent the famous calligrapher Wang Xizhi (c.303-c. 361). Wang admired the fluid motion of the goose’s neck and it is said to have inspired a natural fluidity in his calligraphy. He is attributed with having written the famous ‘Preface to the Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion’ in AD 353.Bottles of this type were exported in large volume to Japan, the Middle East and Europe, where they inspired the production of copies in inferior local materials. Such a blue-and-white porcelain bottle made in Japan is in the British Museum (given by Sir A. W Franks, JA F.1006).
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