Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:mammal garden scholar
Dimensions:Diameter: 21.80 centimetres Height: 9.20 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This bowl has deep rounded sides, an everted rim and a straight foot. As is typical with late Ming ceramics, the interior design fills the entire surface and shows two scholar-officials in a garden. One is seated in front of a large painted screen. He is dressed in a round-necked robe with embroidered trim, cuffs, a rank badge and square hat with antennae. Approaching him, smiling and carrying a bowl on a stand, is another figure wearing a less elaborate round-necked robe with embroidered edges and chest and ‘fu tou’, the black gauze cap with wings. The exterior is painted with three unusual scenes involving a white rabbit. First the rabbit is depicted crouching among chrysanthemums, next it is shown running among camellias from a barely visible bird, and finally it cowers on its back with its feet in the air as a bird of prey, possibly a hawk, descends with flexed claws. The base is marked with an apocryphal Chenghua six-character reign mark in a double ring.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Two bowls of the same dimensions and with the same exterior design and six-character reign mark are in the pre-1611 collection of the Ardebil shrine.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:mammal garden scholar
Dimensions:Diameter: 21.80 centimetres Height: 9.20 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with underglaze blue decoration. This bowl has deep rounded sides, an everted rim and a straight foot. As is typical with late Ming ceramics, the interior design fills the entire surface and shows two scholar-officials in a garden. One is seated in front of a large painted screen. He is dressed in a round-necked robe with embroidered trim, cuffs, a rank badge and square hat with antennae. Approaching him, smiling and carrying a bowl on a stand, is another figure wearing a less elaborate round-necked robe with embroidered edges and chest and ‘fu tou’, the black gauze cap with wings. The exterior is painted with three unusual scenes involving a white rabbit. First the rabbit is depicted crouching among chrysanthemums, next it is shown running among camellias from a barely visible bird, and finally it cowers on its back with its feet in the air as a bird of prey, possibly a hawk, descends with flexed claws. The base is marked with an apocryphal Chenghua six-character reign mark in a double ring.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Two bowls of the same dimensions and with the same exterior design and six-character reign mark are in the pre-1611 collection of the Ardebil shrine.
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