Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1620-1635 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bird deity,flower
Dimensions:Diameter: 22.20 centimetres Height: 9.30 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This bowl has rounded sides and stands on a straight foot. The inside is painted with Shou Lao, the god of longevity, in a double ring medallion. He is flying on the back of a crane with outstretched wings over the ocean waves. Simple flower heads and half-flower heads reserved in white on a blue ground striped with darker blue lines ornament the inner rim. Outside four roundels each frame two figures on a background of ‘shou’ [longevity] characters, with a border of ‘ruyi’ heads below and a band of white flower heads in octagonal frames above. The figures are indistinct but may be identified as the Eight Daoist Immortals. The base carries a six-character Chenghua mark in a double ring.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Although this type of bowl may well have been made for the domestic market, it was also exported to Europe and the Near East. Shards from similar bowls have been found among the cargo of the Sao Gongalo, wrecked in 1630 on a reef near Port Elizabeth in Plettenberg Bay off the coast of South Africa. Such bowls are also depicted in Dutch still-life oil paintings, such as those by Jacques Linard, painted in 1627 and 1638 respectively. Persian bowls with similar designs were made too, indicating that bowls of the present type were also sent to the Near East: an example is in the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands (OKS 1967.10). Other Chinese bowls of this type are in the Flehite Museum, Amersfoort, Netherlands, and in the Princessehof Museum.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bird deity,flower
Dimensions:Diameter: 22.20 centimetres Height: 9.30 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This bowl has rounded sides and stands on a straight foot. The inside is painted with Shou Lao, the god of longevity, in a double ring medallion. He is flying on the back of a crane with outstretched wings over the ocean waves. Simple flower heads and half-flower heads reserved in white on a blue ground striped with darker blue lines ornament the inner rim. Outside four roundels each frame two figures on a background of ‘shou’ [longevity] characters, with a border of ‘ruyi’ heads below and a band of white flower heads in octagonal frames above. The figures are indistinct but may be identified as the Eight Daoist Immortals. The base carries a six-character Chenghua mark in a double ring.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Although this type of bowl may well have been made for the domestic market, it was also exported to Europe and the Near East. Shards from similar bowls have been found among the cargo of the Sao Gongalo, wrecked in 1630 on a reef near Port Elizabeth in Plettenberg Bay off the coast of South Africa. Such bowls are also depicted in Dutch still-life oil paintings, such as those by Jacques Linard, painted in 1627 and 1638 respectively. Persian bowls with similar designs were made too, indicating that bowls of the present type were also sent to the Near East: an example is in the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands (OKS 1967.10). Other Chinese bowls of this type are in the Flehite Museum, Amersfoort, Netherlands, and in the Princessehof Museum.
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