Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1542 (dated)
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed
Subjects:bird symbol shrine
Dimensions:Height: 19 centimetres
Description:
Stoneware jar with incised inscription and applied ornament beneath an olive green glaze. This ovoid stoneware jar stands on a low splayed foot and has a short neck. On one side a small shrine is depicted in relief with a central unglazed rectangular tablet surrounded in applied relief with birds perching on the upturned eves of the roof, vases marked 花 ‘hua’ [flower] on either side, and with an incense burner in front. The ovoid jar is incised with an inscription in cursive script divided into vertical panels.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Originally this jar may have had a cover as the short neck is unglazed. Obtaining material goods and producing successful male children are the two major preoccupations of donors expressed in inscriptions on votive objects given to Buddhist and Daoist monasteries and shrines in the Ming era.A stoneware temple bell, with applied twin-dragon-head handle on top and with studs around the top edge, dated by incised inscription to the first year, fourth month, eighth day of the Wanli era (AD 1573), made with a similar streaky green glaze, probably in the same kiln as the present jar, is in the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden.
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed
Subjects:bird symbol shrine
Dimensions:Height: 19 centimetres
Description:
Stoneware jar with incised inscription and applied ornament beneath an olive green glaze. This ovoid stoneware jar stands on a low splayed foot and has a short neck. On one side a small shrine is depicted in relief with a central unglazed rectangular tablet surrounded in applied relief with birds perching on the upturned eves of the roof, vases marked 花 ‘hua’ [flower] on either side, and with an incense burner in front. The ovoid jar is incised with an inscription in cursive script divided into vertical panels.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Originally this jar may have had a cover as the short neck is unglazed. Obtaining material goods and producing successful male children are the two major preoccupations of donors expressed in inscriptions on votive objects given to Buddhist and Daoist monasteries and shrines in the Ming era.A stoneware temple bell, with applied twin-dragon-head handle on top and with studs around the top edge, dated by incised inscription to the first year, fourth month, eighth day of the Wanli era (AD 1573), made with a similar streaky green glaze, probably in the same kiln as the present jar, is in the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden.
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