Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1620-1644 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, gilded, kinrande, underglazed,
Subjects:lotus toy leaf child
Dimensions:Diameter: 12 centimetres Height: 5.60 centimetres
Description:
A pair of porcelain bowls with underglaze blue, red enamel and gold ‘kinrande’ decoration. These bowls have high rounded sides and a tall tapering foot with chatter marks on the base. Inside, in the bottom, they are painted in underglaze blue with two children riding a hobby horse, the rim outlined in blue. Outside they are covered with iron-red overglaze and with ‘kinrande’ [gold brocade] lotus scroll with four large blooms and feathery scrolling leaves. The base carries a bogus underglaze blue Yongle (1403-24) reign mark in a single ring, which reads ‘Da Ming Yongle nian zhi’.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Although a four-character imperial reign mark was introduced in the Yongle era, it was incised beneath a transparent glaze. The familiar imperial six-character Ming mark was first used in the Xuande era (1425-35). Such apocryphal Yongle marks were pioneered in the late Ming period.Ming hobby horses were probably made with a fabric head, and with metal, leather and silk trappings, and a wheel at the base of the bamboo stick. Ephemeral items, these toys do not appear to have survived from the Ming period and can now be seen only on decorative arts or in paintings. It is always boys rather than girls who are depicted riding toy horses. Although it was a popular pastime among children, riding a hobby horse was also a visual metaphor for a successful official. Children’s processions echoed images of a successful scholar-official, mounted on horseback and accompanied by a servant on foot, holding aloft a canopy. The child on the hobby horse in Ming porcelain is significantly larger than his playmates and is sometimes dressed in the gauze hat of an official, indicating his superior status.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, gilded, kinrande, underglazed,
Subjects:lotus toy leaf child
Dimensions:Diameter: 12 centimetres Height: 5.60 centimetres
Description:
A pair of porcelain bowls with underglaze blue, red enamel and gold ‘kinrande’ decoration. These bowls have high rounded sides and a tall tapering foot with chatter marks on the base. Inside, in the bottom, they are painted in underglaze blue with two children riding a hobby horse, the rim outlined in blue. Outside they are covered with iron-red overglaze and with ‘kinrande’ [gold brocade] lotus scroll with four large blooms and feathery scrolling leaves. The base carries a bogus underglaze blue Yongle (1403-24) reign mark in a single ring, which reads ‘Da Ming Yongle nian zhi’.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Although a four-character imperial reign mark was introduced in the Yongle era, it was incised beneath a transparent glaze. The familiar imperial six-character Ming mark was first used in the Xuande era (1425-35). Such apocryphal Yongle marks were pioneered in the late Ming period.Ming hobby horses were probably made with a fabric head, and with metal, leather and silk trappings, and a wheel at the base of the bamboo stick. Ephemeral items, these toys do not appear to have survived from the Ming period and can now be seen only on decorative arts or in paintings. It is always boys rather than girls who are depicted riding toy horses. Although it was a popular pastime among children, riding a hobby horse was also a visual metaphor for a successful official. Children’s processions echoed images of a successful scholar-official, mounted on horseback and accompanied by a servant on foot, holding aloft a canopy. The child on the hobby horse in Ming porcelain is significantly larger than his playmates and is sometimes dressed in the gauze hat of an official, indicating his superior status.
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