bowl BM-PDF.670

Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1540-1560
Materials:porcelain
Technique:underglazed

Dimensions:Diameter: 145 millimetres Height: 77 millimetres

Description:
Porcelain double bowl with rounded sides and a hole in the base. There is a scene, from the ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’ (Sanguo Yanyi), of Guanyu seated at a table accompanied by a sleeping guard in underglaze cobalt blue on the interior, and four seated men on the exterior. There is an inscription on the base.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming Jiajing 1522-1566 Room 95 label text:PDF 670Blue-and-white warming bowl with figuresThis bowl has a liner dish set into the top and a hole in the bottom. It is painted with a scene from the 三國演義(san guo zhi yan yi ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’). This historical novel was written by Luo Guanzhong in the fourteenth century, based upon events in the turbulent years of the fall of the Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period (about AD 169–280). Potters at Jingdezhen used a wider range of figural subjects in the sixteenth century than in earlier times. Although most potters would have been illiterate, this increase in the diversity of figural scenes may indirectly be a response to the wider circulation of illustrated woodblock-printed stories, novels and plays written in the easier to understand vernacular, as opposed to classical, Chinese. The mark on the base reads 北泉佳器 (Beiquan jia qi ‘Fine vessel of Beiquan). Beiquan was the style name of Lan Tian ( AD 1477–1555) a civil official. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, about AD 1540–1600 PDF 670青花人物圖溫碗此碗頂部有襯盤，器底有孔。繪有《三國演義》（意為三個王國的傳奇）場景。這是羅貫中於十四世紀根據混亂的漢代末年及三國時期（約169-280年）發生的事件所創作的歷史小說。相較於之前，十六世紀景德鎮的陶工們更廣泛地採用人物作為裝飾主題。雖然大多數陶工是文盲，陶瓷上人物場景多樣化的增加，或許還是間接受到了廣泛流行的木刻配圖畫故事、小說及戲劇的影響，這些文學形式以更為通俗易懂的白話文寫成，不是古典文言文，。器底署款識“北泉佳器”（意為北泉的上好器物）。北泉是藍田的號（1477-1555年），其為一位文官。瓷器，青花江西省景德鎮明代，約1540-1600年