Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1540-1600 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:symbol insect kirin landscape
Dimensions:Diameter: 20 centimetres (maximum) Height: 34.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain ewer with underglaze blue decoration. This ewer has a pear-shaped body, a dish mouth and a high foot with stepped edge. Its long straight spout is curved at the tip and is joined to the neck with an inclined strut with curled ends. The flat handle has an attachment at the top for securing the cover (now missing). It is painted in dark cobalt blue with mythical beasts in gardens with auspicious symbols, flowering plants, rocks and insects. On one side there is a cross-eyed lion and on the other a ‘qilin’. Above is a narrow border of flower scrolls and a wide band with two peony sprays and insects edged above and below by narrow floral scroll borders; there are plantain leaves around the neck, classic scroll at the mouth rim and inverted lappets framing flowers around the foot. The handle and spout are decorated with flowers and lozenges. At the base of the spout is a grotesque mask with cross eyes, horns and down-turned mouth. Inside the high foot is a hare reserved in white on a blue ground.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A similar ewer of the same form, also marked with a reserved hare on a blue ground, with a prancing ‘qilin’ as the main design, is in the pre-1611 collection of the Ardebil shrine. A bowl with similar grotesque masks is in the Topkapi Saray Museum in Istanbul. Regina Krahl notes that such motifs appear in paintings, architectural design and art objects of the Italian Renaissance, particularly in the sixteenth century. This form of ewer is more usually decorated with the so-called “fountain motif” (see BM Franks. 150).
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:symbol insect kirin landscape
Dimensions:Diameter: 20 centimetres (maximum) Height: 34.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain ewer with underglaze blue decoration. This ewer has a pear-shaped body, a dish mouth and a high foot with stepped edge. Its long straight spout is curved at the tip and is joined to the neck with an inclined strut with curled ends. The flat handle has an attachment at the top for securing the cover (now missing). It is painted in dark cobalt blue with mythical beasts in gardens with auspicious symbols, flowering plants, rocks and insects. On one side there is a cross-eyed lion and on the other a ‘qilin’. Above is a narrow border of flower scrolls and a wide band with two peony sprays and insects edged above and below by narrow floral scroll borders; there are plantain leaves around the neck, classic scroll at the mouth rim and inverted lappets framing flowers around the foot. The handle and spout are decorated with flowers and lozenges. At the base of the spout is a grotesque mask with cross eyes, horns and down-turned mouth. Inside the high foot is a hare reserved in white on a blue ground.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A similar ewer of the same form, also marked with a reserved hare on a blue ground, with a prancing ‘qilin’ as the main design, is in the pre-1611 collection of the Ardebil shrine. A bowl with similar grotesque masks is in the Topkapi Saray Museum in Istanbul. Regina Krahl notes that such motifs appear in paintings, architectural design and art objects of the Italian Renaissance, particularly in the sixteenth century. This form of ewer is more usually decorated with the so-called “fountain motif” (see BM Franks. 150).
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