Period:Yuan dynasty Production date:1300-1400 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:celadon-glazed, moulded, impressed, applied,
Subjects:monster,flower
Dimensions:Diameter: 31.10 centimetres Height: 9 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain three-legged shallow bowl with green glaze. This shallow round bowl stands on three legs in the form of monster heads and has a pendant round base which is unglazed. Inside in the centre is an area which has been left free from glaze and which is impressed with a peony spray motif. Around the outside are relief-moulded ‘Ba gua’ [Eight Trigrams] from the ‘Yijing’ [Book of Changes]. Below is a band of five petal rosettes applied in relief.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The author suggests that this is a product of the late Yuan to early Ming dynasty. Certainly it is similar to another shallow three-legged bowl in the British Museum which is far superior in terms of quality of potting and glaze and appears to have been made earlier, probably in the first half of the fourteenth century. The combination of green glaze and biscuit-fired decoration was exploited in both the Yuan and the Ming eras at Longquan. Another slightly different version of this three-legged bowl is in the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art, Izumi, Japan. This shape of vessel is loosely based on a bronze incense burner and may well have been used to perfume a temple or home.Ayers notes that R. L. Hobson published this piece in 1909 in the Burlington Magazine, indicating its early arrival into the British art market.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:celadon-glazed, moulded, impressed, applied,
Subjects:monster,flower
Dimensions:Diameter: 31.10 centimetres Height: 9 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain three-legged shallow bowl with green glaze. This shallow round bowl stands on three legs in the form of monster heads and has a pendant round base which is unglazed. Inside in the centre is an area which has been left free from glaze and which is impressed with a peony spray motif. Around the outside are relief-moulded ‘Ba gua’ [Eight Trigrams] from the ‘Yijing’ [Book of Changes]. Below is a band of five petal rosettes applied in relief.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The author suggests that this is a product of the late Yuan to early Ming dynasty. Certainly it is similar to another shallow three-legged bowl in the British Museum which is far superior in terms of quality of potting and glaze and appears to have been made earlier, probably in the first half of the fourteenth century. The combination of green glaze and biscuit-fired decoration was exploited in both the Yuan and the Ming eras at Longquan. Another slightly different version of this three-legged bowl is in the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art, Izumi, Japan. This shape of vessel is loosely based on a bronze incense burner and may well have been used to perfume a temple or home.Ayers notes that R. L. Hobson published this piece in 1909 in the Burlington Magazine, indicating its early arrival into the British art market.
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