Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1620-1627 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:child kite/kite flying
Dimensions:Diameter: 11.40 centimetres Height: 5.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This bowl has rounded sides and a straight foot. Outside it is painted with two groups of four boys who both fly a kite, dance, carry a stick, or hold a windmill. The base is marked with a single blue ring and shows that the glaze and body do not fit well together.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Such designs of boys playing ultimately derive from paintings of ‘One Hundred Children’, an auspicious motif to encourage the birth of healthy and successful offspring. Here the design has been greatly simplified and speedily executed, but children are depicted flying kites, among other activities. Chinese kites are made in a variety of shapes with a bamboo frame, a strong paper or silk covering, and a long string attached to a wheel. Kite flying in public parks andopen squares remains a popular activity in China today.The shape of this bowl, the chatter marks on the base and the poor-quality blue employed for the painting are typical of ceramics produced at the non-imperial ‘min yao’ kilns in Jiangxi in the late Ming period. Indeed a similar bowl excavated at Jingdezhen attributed to the Tianqi era is in the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:child kite/kite flying
Dimensions:Diameter: 11.40 centimetres Height: 5.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This bowl has rounded sides and a straight foot. Outside it is painted with two groups of four boys who both fly a kite, dance, carry a stick, or hold a windmill. The base is marked with a single blue ring and shows that the glaze and body do not fit well together.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Such designs of boys playing ultimately derive from paintings of ‘One Hundred Children’, an auspicious motif to encourage the birth of healthy and successful offspring. Here the design has been greatly simplified and speedily executed, but children are depicted flying kites, among other activities. Chinese kites are made in a variety of shapes with a bamboo frame, a strong paper or silk covering, and a long string attached to a wheel. Kite flying in public parks andopen squares remains a popular activity in China today.The shape of this bowl, the chatter marks on the base and the poor-quality blue employed for the painting are typical of ceramics produced at the non-imperial ‘min yao’ kilns in Jiangxi in the late Ming period. Indeed a similar bowl excavated at Jingdezhen attributed to the Tianqi era is in the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute.
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