Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain, metal,
Technique:glazed, moulded, underglazed,
Subjects:bird insect
Dimensions:Height: 18 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain covered bowl with ‘kraak’-type underglaze blue decoration and ‘ormolu’ mount. This moulded bowl has high slightly flared sides and a tapering foot, while its domed cover has a flared rim and a ring knob. Inside the bowl in the centre a crow is perched on a rock, surrounded by four radiating panels with opposite pairs of hollyhock sprays and with peaches, flanked by narrow panels of dots. The outside shows four quatrefoil cartouches alternating white on blue lotus scroll with a grasshopper and with a butterfly. The cover is decorated inside with an artemisia leaf with radiating panels with dots in cartouches and outside with alternating white on blue ‘ruyi’ scroll and butterflies bordered by ‘ruyi’ heads. A peach is painted inside the ring knob.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:In the mid eighteenth century in Europe, probably in France, this covered bowl was mounted on an ‘ormolu’ stand. ‘Ormolu’ mounts for European and Oriental porcelain were fashionable in France during the reigns of Louis XV (1715-74) and Louis XVI (1774-92). Silver mounts, which had been in vogue during the early years of Louis XIV’s (1643-1715) reign, were no longer popular and were melted down by order to help pay for foreign wars. These were replaced by extravagant rococo mounts which complemented styles prevalent in other interior ornaments and furniture. Three covered cups with moulded sides and a similar arrangement of panels but with figural decoration in place of the naturalistic scenes are in the Ardebil shrine, predating the inventory of 1611.
Materials:porcelain, metal,
Technique:glazed, moulded, underglazed,
Subjects:bird insect
Dimensions:Height: 18 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain covered bowl with ‘kraak’-type underglaze blue decoration and ‘ormolu’ mount. This moulded bowl has high slightly flared sides and a tapering foot, while its domed cover has a flared rim and a ring knob. Inside the bowl in the centre a crow is perched on a rock, surrounded by four radiating panels with opposite pairs of hollyhock sprays and with peaches, flanked by narrow panels of dots. The outside shows four quatrefoil cartouches alternating white on blue lotus scroll with a grasshopper and with a butterfly. The cover is decorated inside with an artemisia leaf with radiating panels with dots in cartouches and outside with alternating white on blue ‘ruyi’ scroll and butterflies bordered by ‘ruyi’ heads. A peach is painted inside the ring knob.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:In the mid eighteenth century in Europe, probably in France, this covered bowl was mounted on an ‘ormolu’ stand. ‘Ormolu’ mounts for European and Oriental porcelain were fashionable in France during the reigns of Louis XV (1715-74) and Louis XVI (1774-92). Silver mounts, which had been in vogue during the early years of Louis XIV’s (1643-1715) reign, were no longer popular and were melted down by order to help pay for foreign wars. These were replaced by extravagant rococo mounts which complemented styles prevalent in other interior ornaments and furniture. Three covered cups with moulded sides and a similar arrangement of panels but with figural decoration in place of the naturalistic scenes are in the Ardebil shrine, predating the inventory of 1611.
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