Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1628-1661 (circa)
Materials:porcelain, metal,
Technique:glazed, painted, underglazed,
Subjects:bird
Dimensions:Diameter: 10 centimetres Height: 12 centimetres (with cover) Width: 10 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain incense burner in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels with cut-down neck, bronze mount and cover. This heavily potted incense burner was originally a brush pot which was approximately twice this height with gently flaring sides and a thickened square rim. These brush pots appear to have been made with a central join and it is at this point that the present piece was either broken or cut down. Its rim is mounted in bronze and it has a square cast-bronze openwork cover with a tortoise on a rock looking out at another approaching on a ground of swirling waves. The porcelain sides are decorated with underglaze blue ‘Tai Hu’-style rocks positioned to the right of each of the four sides. Surrounding the rocks are four different plants together with birds on one side, all enamelled in a subdued palette of green, black, red and yellow. The base is marked in underglaze blue with an apocryphal four-character Xuande mark. Grit adheres to the foot in a way typical of seventeenth-century porcelain.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The mount and cover converting the brush pot were probably added in Japan prior to the incense burner’s display at an exhibition of Oriental Ceramics at the Bethnal Green Museum in London’s East End in 1876.The decoration of the four porcelain sides follows the manner of the small-format or fan paintings so popular among the literati in the seventeenth-century .
Materials:porcelain, metal,
Technique:glazed, painted, underglazed,
Subjects:bird
Dimensions:Diameter: 10 centimetres Height: 12 centimetres (with cover) Width: 10 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain incense burner in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels with cut-down neck, bronze mount and cover. This heavily potted incense burner was originally a brush pot which was approximately twice this height with gently flaring sides and a thickened square rim. These brush pots appear to have been made with a central join and it is at this point that the present piece was either broken or cut down. Its rim is mounted in bronze and it has a square cast-bronze openwork cover with a tortoise on a rock looking out at another approaching on a ground of swirling waves. The porcelain sides are decorated with underglaze blue ‘Tai Hu’-style rocks positioned to the right of each of the four sides. Surrounding the rocks are four different plants together with birds on one side, all enamelled in a subdued palette of green, black, red and yellow. The base is marked in underglaze blue with an apocryphal four-character Xuande mark. Grit adheres to the foot in a way typical of seventeenth-century porcelain.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The mount and cover converting the brush pot were probably added in Japan prior to the incense burner’s display at an exhibition of Oriental Ceramics at the Bethnal Green Museum in London’s East End in 1876.The decoration of the four porcelain sides follows the manner of the small-format or fan paintings so popular among the literati in the seventeenth-century .
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