Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1540-1600 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:flower
Dimensions:Diameter: 10.50 centimetres Height: 7.50 centimetres
Description:
Six-stem porcelain brush holder with underglaze blue decoration. This brush holder is of compressed closed globular form with a tapering foot. It has a central opening with a narrow tubular neck and five similar surrounding openings. Painted in bright underglaze blue, the top is decorated with a stylized chrysanthemum flower with further chrysanthemums on the bases of the spouts. Five lobes are filled with a fish-scale pattern and below them are stiff floral sprays, ‘Wan fu you tong’ [May ten thousand blessings gather together] is inscribed in underglaze blue on the base in a double ring.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Another vessel of this unusual form, decorated with a continuous scene of four carp in different attitudes, swimming among water weeds, and with a six-character Jiajing reign mark on the base, was included in an S. Marchant and Son exhibition of 1998 in London. In addition to this evidence for dating, an item in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, may support the suggested function. It is a squat hexagonal vessel; however, its top is domed and has the same narrow tubular openings as the present piece. Chinese brushes are not stored, on the whole, as pens are in the West with the nib pointing down but are placed with the tip uppermost. Possibly both the Stockholm pot and the British Museum vessel were used for fine brushes. Alternatively, rather like Delft tulip vases, they could have held individual flower stems.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:flower
Dimensions:Diameter: 10.50 centimetres Height: 7.50 centimetres
Description:
Six-stem porcelain brush holder with underglaze blue decoration. This brush holder is of compressed closed globular form with a tapering foot. It has a central opening with a narrow tubular neck and five similar surrounding openings. Painted in bright underglaze blue, the top is decorated with a stylized chrysanthemum flower with further chrysanthemums on the bases of the spouts. Five lobes are filled with a fish-scale pattern and below them are stiff floral sprays, ‘Wan fu you tong’ [May ten thousand blessings gather together] is inscribed in underglaze blue on the base in a double ring.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Another vessel of this unusual form, decorated with a continuous scene of four carp in different attitudes, swimming among water weeds, and with a six-character Jiajing reign mark on the base, was included in an S. Marchant and Son exhibition of 1998 in London. In addition to this evidence for dating, an item in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, may support the suggested function. It is a squat hexagonal vessel; however, its top is domed and has the same narrow tubular openings as the present piece. Chinese brushes are not stored, on the whole, as pens are in the West with the nib pointing down but are placed with the tip uppermost. Possibly both the Stockholm pot and the British Museum vessel were used for fine brushes. Alternatively, rather like Delft tulip vases, they could have held individual flower stems.
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