Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1643 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 6.50 centimetres Height: 4 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bird feeder with underglaze blue decoration. This bird feeder has a pointed base, rounded sides in-turned at the rim and a low raised band around the neck. Two loops are attached at the side for fastening it to a bird cage. It is modelled after an early fifteenth-century bird feeder and is marked with an apocryphal six-character Xuande reign mark in a zigzag border around the rim. Xuande-style lotus scroll adorns the body above a flame border.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:This was one of two such archaistic bird feeders recovered from the Hatcher wreck (see BM 1984.0303.11) and sold in the four sales at Christie’s, Amsterdam. Several porcelains, made to be attached to bird cages, have survived from the Ming period as evidence of the popularity of bird rearing. Blue-and-white feeders in different shapes have been unearthed from the Xuande and Chenghua strata at the imperial kilns in Jingdezhen. Others are in the imperial collections in Taipei. Some of these would have contained water, others food such as hemp seeds, which the Chinese still give to birds, believing that they make them sing more sweetly. ‘Niaolong huacha’ are small tubular containers with double loops attached, made to fit on to the side of a bird cage to display an attractive flower, thus making the cage look even more elegant.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 6.50 centimetres Height: 4 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bird feeder with underglaze blue decoration. This bird feeder has a pointed base, rounded sides in-turned at the rim and a low raised band around the neck. Two loops are attached at the side for fastening it to a bird cage. It is modelled after an early fifteenth-century bird feeder and is marked with an apocryphal six-character Xuande reign mark in a zigzag border around the rim. Xuande-style lotus scroll adorns the body above a flame border.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:This was one of two such archaistic bird feeders recovered from the Hatcher wreck (see BM 1984.0303.11) and sold in the four sales at Christie’s, Amsterdam. Several porcelains, made to be attached to bird cages, have survived from the Ming period as evidence of the popularity of bird rearing. Blue-and-white feeders in different shapes have been unearthed from the Xuande and Chenghua strata at the imperial kilns in Jingdezhen. Others are in the imperial collections in Taipei. Some of these would have contained water, others food such as hemp seeds, which the Chinese still give to birds, believing that they make them sing more sweetly. ‘Niaolong huacha’ are small tubular containers with double loops attached, made to fit on to the side of a bird cage to display an attractive flower, thus making the cage look even more elegant.
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