Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:moulded, fahua,
Subjects:flower fruit
Dimensions:Diameter: 19 centimetres Height: 1.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain octogonal cup stand with relief-moulded and ‘fahua’-palette decoration. This shallow octagonal porcelain cup stand has a flat everted rim with a thickened edge and a flat ground-down base. Moulded in high relief in the middle is a chrysanthemum flower with a flat centre, encircled by four plants, each with three fruits: melons, pomegranates, persimmons and peaches. Such fruits would have provoked immediate popular associations in the Ming period. For example, peaches and chrysanthemums are emblems of long life, persimmons of good fortune, while pomegranates evoke wishes for male progeny.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Such cup stands were made to support a small wine cup with rounded sides, an everted rim and a foot ring. A gold octagonal cup stand with a chrysanthemum centre was excavated in the outskirts of Beijing at Haiding from the early Wanli period tomb of Li Wei, marquis of Wuqing, and of his wife. Also included among the tomb finds was a matching six-sided gold engraved ewer. Other silver cup stands, several with lengthy inscriptions and many of which have eight-lobed sides and raised centres, were discovered in a southern Ming (1644-62) hoard in Tongdao, Hunan province. From the inscriptions we can deduce that these cup stands, together with peach-shaped cups, ‘ding’ tripod vessels and other wine cups, were made for an official of Jingzhou who died in 1647. A round silver cup stand with a similar chrysanthemum centre is in the British Museum.Small delicate ‘fahua’-palette ceramics are quite rare. Mostly this type of decoration was used to cover larger items such as vases, wine jars and garden furnishings.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:moulded, fahua,
Subjects:flower fruit
Dimensions:Diameter: 19 centimetres Height: 1.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain octogonal cup stand with relief-moulded and ‘fahua’-palette decoration. This shallow octagonal porcelain cup stand has a flat everted rim with a thickened edge and a flat ground-down base. Moulded in high relief in the middle is a chrysanthemum flower with a flat centre, encircled by four plants, each with three fruits: melons, pomegranates, persimmons and peaches. Such fruits would have provoked immediate popular associations in the Ming period. For example, peaches and chrysanthemums are emblems of long life, persimmons of good fortune, while pomegranates evoke wishes for male progeny.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Such cup stands were made to support a small wine cup with rounded sides, an everted rim and a foot ring. A gold octagonal cup stand with a chrysanthemum centre was excavated in the outskirts of Beijing at Haiding from the early Wanli period tomb of Li Wei, marquis of Wuqing, and of his wife. Also included among the tomb finds was a matching six-sided gold engraved ewer. Other silver cup stands, several with lengthy inscriptions and many of which have eight-lobed sides and raised centres, were discovered in a southern Ming (1644-62) hoard in Tongdao, Hunan province. From the inscriptions we can deduce that these cup stands, together with peach-shaped cups, ‘ding’ tripod vessels and other wine cups, were made for an official of Jingzhou who died in 1647. A round silver cup stand with a similar chrysanthemum centre is in the British Museum.Small delicate ‘fahua’-palette ceramics are quite rare. Mostly this type of decoration was used to cover larger items such as vases, wine jars and garden furnishings.
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