Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1368-1398 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 40 centimetres Height: 47.20 centimetres
Description:
Large porcelain guan jar with underglaze red decoration and ground-down rim. This impressive jar has an ovoid body which is shallowly divided into twelve vertical lobes. It has a short narrow-waisted neck with everted rim and stands on a spreading foot with a thickened edge. It is decorated in underglaze copper red which has misfired to a deep liver-red and blurred much of the design. The base is unglazed within an outer broad foot ring. The rim has been ground down by about 2 cm. Originally that section would have been decorated with a band of underglaze red key-fret. Below this are nine horizontal bands of decoration. From the top to the bottom these are: around the neck a collar of double-outlined pendant ruyi heads, a band of lappets framing individual lotus blooms, individual ruyi clouds with smaller clouds attached to form four corners and a pendant ruyi head band framing individual lotus flowers. Each of the lobes around the body is painted with two flowering stems issuing from an ornamental rock, each one a different variety. Below is a further band of lappets, a band of key-fret, a band of lotus in individual frames and with classic scroll around the foot. Originally this type of jar would have had a porcelain cover, also decorated in underglaze red, in the form of an overhanging lotus leaf with a lotus-bud-shaped finial.
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![图片[1]-guan BM-1936-1012.37-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00255279_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-guan BM-1936-1012.37-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00505981_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-guan BM-1936-1012.37-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_RRC9483_base.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A large broken jar of this form and with similar decoration in underglaze blue was excavated in 1994 in the Hongwu strata at Dongmentou, Zhushan, Jingdezhen, complete with its cover. Such jars were used for storing wine in the Yuan and early Ming periods and are represented in wall paintings, standing on the floor beneath a table. It is probable that the Museum’s jar was made at the imperial factory at Zhushan, Jingdezhen, for use by the Hongwu emperor’s court at Nanjing. A number of other similar jars survive in public collections, including the Umezawa Kinenkan Museum, Tokyo, and the Matsuoka Museum of Art, Tokyo.Recently a brewery site has been excavated in Chengdu, Sichuan, with remains dating from the Ming to the modern period, which illuminates the history of wine production in China.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 40 centimetres Height: 47.20 centimetres
Description:
Large porcelain guan jar with underglaze red decoration and ground-down rim. This impressive jar has an ovoid body which is shallowly divided into twelve vertical lobes. It has a short narrow-waisted neck with everted rim and stands on a spreading foot with a thickened edge. It is decorated in underglaze copper red which has misfired to a deep liver-red and blurred much of the design. The base is unglazed within an outer broad foot ring. The rim has been ground down by about 2 cm. Originally that section would have been decorated with a band of underglaze red key-fret. Below this are nine horizontal bands of decoration. From the top to the bottom these are: around the neck a collar of double-outlined pendant ruyi heads, a band of lappets framing individual lotus blooms, individual ruyi clouds with smaller clouds attached to form four corners and a pendant ruyi head band framing individual lotus flowers. Each of the lobes around the body is painted with two flowering stems issuing from an ornamental rock, each one a different variety. Below is a further band of lappets, a band of key-fret, a band of lotus in individual frames and with classic scroll around the foot. Originally this type of jar would have had a porcelain cover, also decorated in underglaze red, in the form of an overhanging lotus leaf with a lotus-bud-shaped finial.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A large broken jar of this form and with similar decoration in underglaze blue was excavated in 1994 in the Hongwu strata at Dongmentou, Zhushan, Jingdezhen, complete with its cover. Such jars were used for storing wine in the Yuan and early Ming periods and are represented in wall paintings, standing on the floor beneath a table. It is probable that the Museum’s jar was made at the imperial factory at Zhushan, Jingdezhen, for use by the Hongwu emperor’s court at Nanjing. A number of other similar jars survive in public collections, including the Umezawa Kinenkan Museum, Tokyo, and the Matsuoka Museum of Art, Tokyo.Recently a brewery site has been excavated in Chengdu, Sichuan, with remains dating from the Ming to the modern period, which illuminates the history of wine production in China.
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