Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620
Materials:porcelain
Technique:wucai, underglazed,
Dimensions:Height: 97 millimetres Width: 152 millimetres
Description:
Porcelain openwork brush-rest in the form of three dragons on top of a narrow rectangular plinth, with open base and hollow undersection. There is a full-faced dragon in Wucai style with underglaze blue and overglaze yellow, red and green overglaze enamel in the centre, and coiling dragon on either side.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming Wanli 1573-1620 Room 95 label text:PDF 752Mountain-shaped brush rest with dragonsPotters decorated this mountain-shaped brush rest in a twice-fired technique called 五彩 (wucai ‘five colours’) composed of underglaze blue and overglaze red, yellow, green and black. This particular example is unusual as it has no base or reign mark and is hollow and fully glazed inside. For a related example in the British Museum’s collections with a solid base and a Wanli reign mark see 1933.3-13.10. The combination of powerful dragons prancing above waves and rocks is a popular motif on imperial robes of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue and overglaze wucai enamels Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, Wanli period, AD 1573–1620, probably about 1593 PDF 752龍紋山形筆架此五彩山形筆架兩次燒成，包括釉下青花及釉上紅、黃、綠及黑彩。此例頗為特殊，底部中空，內部施滿釉，無款。大英博物館藏品中有一件類似的，但為實底，且署萬曆年款，可供參考（參見1933.3-13.10）。明清龍袍上，富有氣勢的龍紋飛騰于海水江崖之上的組合是一種流行的圖案主題。瓷器，青花，釉上五彩江西省景德鎮明代，萬曆， 1573-1620年，也許為1593年
Materials:porcelain
Technique:wucai, underglazed,
Dimensions:Height: 97 millimetres Width: 152 millimetres
Description:
Porcelain openwork brush-rest in the form of three dragons on top of a narrow rectangular plinth, with open base and hollow undersection. There is a full-faced dragon in Wucai style with underglaze blue and overglaze yellow, red and green overglaze enamel in the centre, and coiling dragon on either side.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming Wanli 1573-1620 Room 95 label text:PDF 752Mountain-shaped brush rest with dragonsPotters decorated this mountain-shaped brush rest in a twice-fired technique called 五彩 (wucai ‘five colours’) composed of underglaze blue and overglaze red, yellow, green and black. This particular example is unusual as it has no base or reign mark and is hollow and fully glazed inside. For a related example in the British Museum’s collections with a solid base and a Wanli reign mark see 1933.3-13.10. The combination of powerful dragons prancing above waves and rocks is a popular motif on imperial robes of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue and overglaze wucai enamels Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, Wanli period, AD 1573–1620, probably about 1593 PDF 752龍紋山形筆架此五彩山形筆架兩次燒成，包括釉下青花及釉上紅、黃、綠及黑彩。此例頗為特殊，底部中空，內部施滿釉，無款。大英博物館藏品中有一件類似的，但為實底，且署萬曆年款，可供參考（參見1933.3-13.10）。明清龍袍上，富有氣勢的龍紋飛騰于海水江崖之上的組合是一種流行的圖案主題。瓷器，青花，釉上五彩江西省景德鎮明代，萬曆， 1573-1620年，也許為1593年
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