Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1488-1566 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:slipped, glazed, pierced, fahua,
Subjects:symbol lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 25 centimetres Height: 20.50 centimetres
Description:
Three-legged cylindrical porcelain flower pot with ‘fahua’-type decoration. This cylindrical porcelain flower pot is supported by three cabriole legs and is pieced with a hole in the centre of its f base for draining water. The designs at outlined with raised slip and painted yellow, turquoise and aubergine on a dark blue ground. Certain details are fired in the biscuit. It is decorated in three horizontal registers. Uppermost are six octofoil cartouches surrounded by a raised honeycomb ground with beaded flower centres. Alternately these cartouches contain ‘Lantsa’ characters and auspicious symbols. Below this in low relief are the Eight Trigrams – the basic forms of the ‘Yijing’ [Book of Changes]. These are each made up of three whole or broken lines and, according to their combination, symbolize heaven, earth, water, fire, dampness, wind, thunder and fountains. These symbols can be doubled up into sixty-four different hexagrams, giving a formula for understanding the meaning of life, the universe and everything. The lower register shows eight stylized lotus with streamers floating above ‘ruyi’ clouds. Lotus also feature on the legs. Inside the vessel is glazed. The porcelain body suggests that it was made at Jingdezhen.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:’Lantsa’ is a Tibetan term for the Buddhist script brought with Buddhism into China. It appears on decorative art objects to inscribe, for example, mantras [chants] or sounds.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:slipped, glazed, pierced, fahua,
Subjects:symbol lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 25 centimetres Height: 20.50 centimetres
Description:
Three-legged cylindrical porcelain flower pot with ‘fahua’-type decoration. This cylindrical porcelain flower pot is supported by three cabriole legs and is pieced with a hole in the centre of its f base for draining water. The designs at outlined with raised slip and painted yellow, turquoise and aubergine on a dark blue ground. Certain details are fired in the biscuit. It is decorated in three horizontal registers. Uppermost are six octofoil cartouches surrounded by a raised honeycomb ground with beaded flower centres. Alternately these cartouches contain ‘Lantsa’ characters and auspicious symbols. Below this in low relief are the Eight Trigrams – the basic forms of the ‘Yijing’ [Book of Changes]. These are each made up of three whole or broken lines and, according to their combination, symbolize heaven, earth, water, fire, dampness, wind, thunder and fountains. These symbols can be doubled up into sixty-four different hexagrams, giving a formula for understanding the meaning of life, the universe and everything. The lower register shows eight stylized lotus with streamers floating above ‘ruyi’ clouds. Lotus also feature on the legs. Inside the vessel is glazed. The porcelain body suggests that it was made at Jingdezhen.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:’Lantsa’ is a Tibetan term for the Buddhist script brought with Buddhism into China. It appears on decorative art objects to inscribe, for example, mantras [chants] or sounds.
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