Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1600-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:mammal bird musician
Dimensions:Height: 28.50 centimetres Width: 12 centimetres Depth: 7 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain ewer in the form of a female musician with underglaze blue decoration. Modelled as a woman playing a four-stringed lute or ‘pipa’, this ewer may be filled with liquid via an opening between the outer and inner robe at the musician’s neck and emptied through the raised left sleeve, which forms a spout. The musician is dressed in a round-necked inner robe and an outer robe decorated with a wave design at the hem, round badges with images of cranes and a hare reserved in white and with blue ‘lingzhi’ fungus, the sleeve and neck edged with diaper border. Her waist is tied with a broad sash adorned with scrolling peonies. She stands on a pedestal bordered by flower scrolls. Typical of late Wanli porcelain, the edges of the robe, nose, chin and hairdo are fritted. The tip of the lute has broken off and the figure’s neck is broken and extensively repaired.
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![图片[1]-ewer BM-1963-0520.5-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00267481_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-ewer BM-1963-0520.5-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00499233_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:This figure was collected in India by William Cummins, a railway engineer who worked on the Bombay-Calcutta line between 1864 and 1883, and who later retired to Canada. Much of the Cummins Collection came from the Kings of Oudh. Some 600 pieces survived from this collection, but a house fire in 1955 brought the numbers down to 200 intact, from which, in 1963, a selection was purchased for the Museum.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:mammal bird musician
Dimensions:Height: 28.50 centimetres Width: 12 centimetres Depth: 7 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain ewer in the form of a female musician with underglaze blue decoration. Modelled as a woman playing a four-stringed lute or ‘pipa’, this ewer may be filled with liquid via an opening between the outer and inner robe at the musician’s neck and emptied through the raised left sleeve, which forms a spout. The musician is dressed in a round-necked inner robe and an outer robe decorated with a wave design at the hem, round badges with images of cranes and a hare reserved in white and with blue ‘lingzhi’ fungus, the sleeve and neck edged with diaper border. Her waist is tied with a broad sash adorned with scrolling peonies. She stands on a pedestal bordered by flower scrolls. Typical of late Wanli porcelain, the edges of the robe, nose, chin and hairdo are fritted. The tip of the lute has broken off and the figure’s neck is broken and extensively repaired.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:This figure was collected in India by William Cummins, a railway engineer who worked on the Bombay-Calcutta line between 1864 and 1883, and who later retired to Canada. Much of the Cummins Collection came from the Kings of Oudh. Some 600 pieces survived from this collection, but a house fire in 1955 brought the numbers down to 200 intact, from which, in 1963, a selection was purchased for the Museum.
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