Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1550-1600 (circa)
Materials:earthenware
Technique:glazed, slipped, painted, cold painted,
Subjects:servant/domestic worker
Dimensions:Height: 18.80 centimetres Width: 6 centimetres Depth: 5.80 centimetres
Description:
Green-and-amber-glazed earthenware funerary model of a female servant. This earthenware model depicts a female servant holding a large mirror. With the left hand she supports the bottom of the disc and with the right grips the rim at the side. The disc is identified as a mirror because it has a central boss like the knob on the back of a full-size Chinese mirror. It is less likely that it is a basin as a basin would be held evenly and horizontally rather than on its edge. The figure is dressed in a green-glazed shawl and short coat tied at the waist, beneath which she wears a long amber-glazed skirt. Her face is unglazed, slipped and cold-painted. Her hair is tied in a bun on the top of her head and pleated into three even sections. The body has fired brick red and is very similar to that of contemporary Ming roof tiles. It stands on a square base with a central hole.
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![图片[1]-figure BM-1937-0716.113-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/43/mid_00262540_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-figure BM-1937-0716.113-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/43/mid_00355374_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Groups of women holding equipment for the toilette appear in both male and female burials. Model servants holding this type of disc, identified as a mirror, in the vertical position are generally women. For example, a stone image of a woman holding a similar disc at the lower edge with both hands was excavated in the Jiajing to early Wanli era tomb of Ding Xikong in Zhaoyuan, Shandong. Similarities in the treatment of the drapery and positioning of the figure suggest a similar date for this figure.
Materials:earthenware
Technique:glazed, slipped, painted, cold painted,
Subjects:servant/domestic worker
Dimensions:Height: 18.80 centimetres Width: 6 centimetres Depth: 5.80 centimetres
Description:
Green-and-amber-glazed earthenware funerary model of a female servant. This earthenware model depicts a female servant holding a large mirror. With the left hand she supports the bottom of the disc and with the right grips the rim at the side. The disc is identified as a mirror because it has a central boss like the knob on the back of a full-size Chinese mirror. It is less likely that it is a basin as a basin would be held evenly and horizontally rather than on its edge. The figure is dressed in a green-glazed shawl and short coat tied at the waist, beneath which she wears a long amber-glazed skirt. Her face is unglazed, slipped and cold-painted. Her hair is tied in a bun on the top of her head and pleated into three even sections. The body has fired brick red and is very similar to that of contemporary Ming roof tiles. It stands on a square base with a central hole.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Groups of women holding equipment for the toilette appear in both male and female burials. Model servants holding this type of disc, identified as a mirror, in the vertical position are generally women. For example, a stone image of a woman holding a similar disc at the lower edge with both hands was excavated in the Jiajing to early Wanli era tomb of Ding Xikong in Zhaoyuan, Shandong. Similarities in the treatment of the drapery and positioning of the figure suggest a similar date for this figure.
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