Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1643 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 20.60 centimetres Height: 9.40 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This deep bowl has rounded sides and stands on a high foot ring. Inside it is painted with a design of ‘hai shou’ [sea creatures] cavorting among stylized waves. In the centre is a ‘feiyu’ [flying fish dragon] with four-clawed fore limbs outstretched, open jaws and serrated wings, a scaly body and a fishy tail. Creatures in the cavetto include another type of sea dragon, a ‘qilin’ [flying deer-like creature], a reptilian beast with wings, a sinewy dragon and another deer-like animal, possibly a ‘tianlu’. These are painted in deep blue against a ground of waves outlined in blue and infilled with concentric blue lines. A scroll border ornaments the rim. Outside the bowl is plain but glazed blue-white and with a single blue line in a ring on the base.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Descriptions of sea creatures appear in the ‘Shan Haijing’ [The Classic of the Mountains and the Sea], originally compiled by Liu Xiang and his son Liu Xin during the Han dynasty but derived from even earlier sources, and revised and illustrated in the Eastern Jin dynasty by Guo Pu. It was rediscovered in the Chenghua era and sea creatures became a popular motif on imperial porcelains of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as well as inspiring folk kiln copies in the seventeenth century. The present bowl was recovered from the Hatcher shipwreck, dating to c. 1643 (see BM 1984.0303.11a and b).
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 20.60 centimetres Height: 9.40 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This deep bowl has rounded sides and stands on a high foot ring. Inside it is painted with a design of ‘hai shou’ [sea creatures] cavorting among stylized waves. In the centre is a ‘feiyu’ [flying fish dragon] with four-clawed fore limbs outstretched, open jaws and serrated wings, a scaly body and a fishy tail. Creatures in the cavetto include another type of sea dragon, a ‘qilin’ [flying deer-like creature], a reptilian beast with wings, a sinewy dragon and another deer-like animal, possibly a ‘tianlu’. These are painted in deep blue against a ground of waves outlined in blue and infilled with concentric blue lines. A scroll border ornaments the rim. Outside the bowl is plain but glazed blue-white and with a single blue line in a ring on the base.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Descriptions of sea creatures appear in the ‘Shan Haijing’ [The Classic of the Mountains and the Sea], originally compiled by Liu Xiang and his son Liu Xin during the Han dynasty but derived from even earlier sources, and revised and illustrated in the Eastern Jin dynasty by Guo Pu. It was rediscovered in the Chenghua era and sea creatures became a popular motif on imperial porcelains of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as well as inspiring folk kiln copies in the seventeenth century. The present bowl was recovered from the Hatcher shipwreck, dating to c. 1643 (see BM 1984.0303.11a and b).
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