Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1511 (dated)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, slipped, underglazed,
Dimensions:Diameter: 16.60 centimetres Height: 8.40 centimetres
Description:
Water bowl with cream slip and underglaze iron-brown inscription beneath a transparent glaze. This thickly potted bowl has rounded sides and an indented ridge neck and stands on a straight solid foot ring. Outside it is covered with a cream slip and beneath the transparent glaze is painted with an inscription around the neck in iron brown.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:From the name Ji Shan An, we can surmise that it was a small Buddhist nunnery or temple on a mountainside where this water bowl was placed before an image of the Buddha. Alms bowls and ceremonial or ‘pure’ water bowls are often modelled with inwardly curving sides and mouth like this one. Another Zhengde period ‘pure’ water bowl, with a dedicatory inscription dated 1520 and with winged dragon decoration in underglaze blue, made at Jingdezhen, was unearthed at a tomb near the suburb of Jingdezhen. This suggests that the form of the bowl was not specific to temple use but was also used for burial in the Zhengde period.The present bowl is particularly important, as few dated examples of sixteenth-century Dehua survive. Two groups of objects, now in the Dehua Ceramics Museum, were excavated in Fujian from a Zhengde period tomb of 1519 and from a Jiajing period tomb of 1559.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, slipped, underglazed,
Dimensions:Diameter: 16.60 centimetres Height: 8.40 centimetres
Description:
Water bowl with cream slip and underglaze iron-brown inscription beneath a transparent glaze. This thickly potted bowl has rounded sides and an indented ridge neck and stands on a straight solid foot ring. Outside it is covered with a cream slip and beneath the transparent glaze is painted with an inscription around the neck in iron brown.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:From the name Ji Shan An, we can surmise that it was a small Buddhist nunnery or temple on a mountainside where this water bowl was placed before an image of the Buddha. Alms bowls and ceremonial or ‘pure’ water bowls are often modelled with inwardly curving sides and mouth like this one. Another Zhengde period ‘pure’ water bowl, with a dedicatory inscription dated 1520 and with winged dragon decoration in underglaze blue, made at Jingdezhen, was unearthed at a tomb near the suburb of Jingdezhen. This suggests that the form of the bowl was not specific to temple use but was also used for burial in the Zhengde period.The present bowl is particularly important, as few dated examples of sixteenth-century Dehua survive. Two groups of objects, now in the Dehua Ceramics Museum, were excavated in Fujian from a Zhengde period tomb of 1519 and from a Jiajing period tomb of 1559.
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