Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1620-1627 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:mammal
Dimensions:Diameter: 16.40 centimetres Height: 2.70 centimetres
Description:
A porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. Warped in the firing, it has flared sides and an everted flat rim with ‘insect-eaten’ edge and a tapering gritty foot with a chatter-marked base. A crouching animal is labelled with a rectangular cartouche containing two characters, both reserved in white on a speckled, ‘souffle’ blue ground. A border of spirals encircles the rim. Outside there are four circles surrounded by dots painted on the walls, with blue lines outlining the rim, join of foot to body, and foot.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:According to Daoist mythology, the hare who lives in the moon and pounds the ingredients of the elixir of immortality in perpetuity is known as the ‘Jade Hare’.A typical product of the Tianqi era, this type of dish was popular in Japan because of its defects as much as for its decoration. The blue colour was blown, in a technique called souffle, through a tube with silk gauze attached to one end, while the reserved areas were covered with a wax coating which was removed before glazing. Dishes with this design were also made in Japan in the early seventeenth century. A similar dish with a caption is attributed to the Hiekoba kiln, Arita, by Oliver Impey on the basis of excavated shards, while another ‘fukizumi’ dish, showing a boy on a buffalo, was excavated at the Tenjinmori kiln, Arita. A Japanese dish in the British Museum [1959,0418.1], formerly owned by Mrs Walter Sedgwick and purchased in 1959, is captioned “Spring White Hare”. The Japanese dishes are more heavily potted than the Chinese versions. They also lack the chatter-marked base and have a broader foot ring. In addition the Japanese versions have less pure glazes but the depiction of the hare tends to be more naturalistic. Other Chinese dishes with identical designs are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and the private Butler Collection. A similar dish with a different border is in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in the Effie B. Allison Collection.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:mammal
Dimensions:Diameter: 16.40 centimetres Height: 2.70 centimetres
Description:
A porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. Warped in the firing, it has flared sides and an everted flat rim with ‘insect-eaten’ edge and a tapering gritty foot with a chatter-marked base. A crouching animal is labelled with a rectangular cartouche containing two characters, both reserved in white on a speckled, ‘souffle’ blue ground. A border of spirals encircles the rim. Outside there are four circles surrounded by dots painted on the walls, with blue lines outlining the rim, join of foot to body, and foot.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:According to Daoist mythology, the hare who lives in the moon and pounds the ingredients of the elixir of immortality in perpetuity is known as the ‘Jade Hare’.A typical product of the Tianqi era, this type of dish was popular in Japan because of its defects as much as for its decoration. The blue colour was blown, in a technique called souffle, through a tube with silk gauze attached to one end, while the reserved areas were covered with a wax coating which was removed before glazing. Dishes with this design were also made in Japan in the early seventeenth century. A similar dish with a caption is attributed to the Hiekoba kiln, Arita, by Oliver Impey on the basis of excavated shards, while another ‘fukizumi’ dish, showing a boy on a buffalo, was excavated at the Tenjinmori kiln, Arita. A Japanese dish in the British Museum [1959,0418.1], formerly owned by Mrs Walter Sedgwick and purchased in 1959, is captioned “Spring White Hare”. The Japanese dishes are more heavily potted than the Chinese versions. They also lack the chatter-marked base and have a broader foot ring. In addition the Japanese versions have less pure glazes but the depiction of the hare tends to be more naturalistic. Other Chinese dishes with identical designs are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and the private Butler Collection. A similar dish with a different border is in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in the Effie B. Allison Collection.
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