Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1610-1628 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:landscape
Dimensions:Diameter: 11.50 centimetres Height: 6.40 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This deep bowl has rounded sides and an everted rim and stands on a tapering foot ring. Inside it is plain but outside it is painted beneath the glaze in blue, with an unusual design of two figures and their servant approaching a city wall at night. The servant is walking some way behind among trees, shouldering a pole with a picnic basket balanced on either end. Beyond him are two figures, one wearing a hat, the other leaning on a crutch. They approach a two-tier city gate in a crenellated wall. Half-way along the wall a banner flies at half-mast and in the distance there is a pagoda. Following Ming convention for decorating blue-and-white wares, the end of the scene is marked by a bank of clouds. The base is marked in underglaze blue with a six-character Chenghua mark.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Five small wine cups with a related design of a man and his servant carrying a ‘qin’, approaching a city wall with a pagoda in the background, are in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London. These bear a six-character Chenghua mark on the base but were made during the Tianqi era. A dish dating to c. 1620-30 in the Butler Collection shows a similar scene of two figures approaching a city gate at night with a banner flying above the two-tier gate.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:landscape
Dimensions:Diameter: 11.50 centimetres Height: 6.40 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This deep bowl has rounded sides and an everted rim and stands on a tapering foot ring. Inside it is plain but outside it is painted beneath the glaze in blue, with an unusual design of two figures and their servant approaching a city wall at night. The servant is walking some way behind among trees, shouldering a pole with a picnic basket balanced on either end. Beyond him are two figures, one wearing a hat, the other leaning on a crutch. They approach a two-tier city gate in a crenellated wall. Half-way along the wall a banner flies at half-mast and in the distance there is a pagoda. Following Ming convention for decorating blue-and-white wares, the end of the scene is marked by a bank of clouds. The base is marked in underglaze blue with a six-character Chenghua mark.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Five small wine cups with a related design of a man and his servant carrying a ‘qin’, approaching a city wall with a pagoda in the background, are in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London. These bear a six-character Chenghua mark on the base but were made during the Tianqi era. A dish dating to c. 1620-30 in the Butler Collection shows a similar scene of two figures approaching a city gate at night with a banner flying above the two-tier gate.
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