Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:fish dragon landscape scholar reading/writing
Dimensions:Diameter: 18.30 centimetres Height: 9 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This medium-sized bowl has rounded sides and a tapering foot. Inside it is decorated with a central roundel showing a scholar reading a book beneath a pine tree and with a cross-hatch border. Outside are three scenes which probably derive from a popular contemporary sixteenth-century literary work. In the first, two men discuss the emergence of a carp from a purpose-built pool into a dragon. In the second, a man with a sword strapped to his back attracts the attention of two other men. In the final scene, two men are seated in a house and one appears to be reading to the other. An apocryphal six-character Xuande mark in a double ring marks the base. The foot ring has a gold lacquer repair, suggesting that at one time it was in a Japanese collection.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The emergence of a carp into a dragon is a symbol of a scholar rising from obscurity to become a successful official in the imperial administrative bureaucracy.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:fish dragon landscape scholar reading/writing
Dimensions:Diameter: 18.30 centimetres Height: 9 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This medium-sized bowl has rounded sides and a tapering foot. Inside it is decorated with a central roundel showing a scholar reading a book beneath a pine tree and with a cross-hatch border. Outside are three scenes which probably derive from a popular contemporary sixteenth-century literary work. In the first, two men discuss the emergence of a carp from a purpose-built pool into a dragon. In the second, a man with a sword strapped to his back attracts the attention of two other men. In the final scene, two men are seated in a house and one appears to be reading to the other. An apocryphal six-character Xuande mark in a double ring marks the base. The foot ring has a gold lacquer repair, suggesting that at one time it was in a Japanese collection.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The emergence of a carp into a dragon is a symbol of a scholar rising from obscurity to become a successful official in the imperial administrative bureaucracy.
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