Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:landscape
Dimensions:Diameter: 21 centimetres Height: 4.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This dish is thickly potted with rounded sides and a broad low foot. In the centre in a bracket-lobed cartouche are three characters: 金 山 寺 ‘Jin Shan Si’ [Jin Shan Monastery, or Monastery of the Golden Mountain]. This inscription is bordered by Y-diaper and by a ring of stylized waves and mountains. Outside are two branches of flowering prunus growing from the rim. The base is unglazed.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The Jin Shan Monastery was a famous Buddhist island monastery, just off shore, in the Yangzi River downstream from Nanjing, north-west of Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province. Zhang Dai (1597-1689) describes an impromptu visit there with his retinue on 2 October 1629 when they startled the resident monks by staging a noisy private performance of opera in the great hall of the monastery.A hanging scroll, painted in monochrome ink on paper, of Jin Shan by one of the greatest painters and calligraphers of the Ming era, Wen Zhengming (1470-1559), is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei (fig. I). Born in Suzhou, in the region traditionally called Wu, Wen became the most important painter of the Suzhou or Wu school of painting after his teacher Shen Zhou (1427-1509). He climbed Jin Shan on the twenty-second day of the eighth lunar month of 1522 and soon afterwards created this painting which shows Jin Shan as a conical hill rising out of choppy waters with ‘sanpans’ under sail and monastery buildings half-hidden by trees. The stylized mountains shown in the present dish have a similar profile to Jin Shan as depicted in Wen Zhengming’s painting.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:landscape
Dimensions:Diameter: 21 centimetres Height: 4.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain dish with underglaze blue decoration. This dish is thickly potted with rounded sides and a broad low foot. In the centre in a bracket-lobed cartouche are three characters: 金 山 寺 ‘Jin Shan Si’ [Jin Shan Monastery, or Monastery of the Golden Mountain]. This inscription is bordered by Y-diaper and by a ring of stylized waves and mountains. Outside are two branches of flowering prunus growing from the rim. The base is unglazed.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The Jin Shan Monastery was a famous Buddhist island monastery, just off shore, in the Yangzi River downstream from Nanjing, north-west of Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province. Zhang Dai (1597-1689) describes an impromptu visit there with his retinue on 2 October 1629 when they startled the resident monks by staging a noisy private performance of opera in the great hall of the monastery.A hanging scroll, painted in monochrome ink on paper, of Jin Shan by one of the greatest painters and calligraphers of the Ming era, Wen Zhengming (1470-1559), is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei (fig. I). Born in Suzhou, in the region traditionally called Wu, Wen became the most important painter of the Suzhou or Wu school of painting after his teacher Shen Zhou (1427-1509). He climbed Jin Shan on the twenty-second day of the eighth lunar month of 1522 and soon afterwards created this painting which shows Jin Shan as a conical hill rising out of choppy waters with ‘sanpans’ under sail and monastery buildings half-hidden by trees. The stylized mountains shown in the present dish have a similar profile to Jin Shan as depicted in Wen Zhengming’s painting.
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