Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1488-1522 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:lotus landscape
Dimensions:Diameter: 5 centimetres (mouth) Height: 12.50 centimetres (with lid) Height: 9.60 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain jar with underglaze blue decoration. This jar has a narrow raised neck, rounded body and tapering foot. On the unglazed base the spiral marks resulting from turning the jar on the potter’s wheel are clearly visible. Inside the join of the upper and lower sections of the jar can be seen. On the outside an old man is shown in a landscape on one side and another, walking with a servant carrying a ‘qin’ wrapped in a textile cloth, on the other side; they are separated by plants and rocks. Around the neck is a double ring with banana leaves forming a collar; stylized lappets, like vertical long and short stripes, surround the foot. The cobalt blue appears black where it has not been covered by the blue-green glaze. Originally the jar would have had a domed cover with lotus-bud finial.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Blue-and-white jars of this form were made with minor variations in decoration and shape throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. They are found in a number of burials in both China and Chinese communities in the Philippines. The present jar may be dated by stylistic comparison to ajar of this type with similar decoration and with its cover intact which survived in a burial dated to the seventeenth year of Hongzhi (1504) in Jiangxi province, now in the Jiangxi Provincial Museum. Another jar of the same form and figural decoration was one of three excavated in 1972 in Jiangyang county, Jiangsu, from a tomb belonging to Xia Lianggui (1437-1513). The other two covered jars were decorated with lotus scrolls. Another was found in the Philippines, confirming that vessels of the same shape and decoration were made for the home and export markets in the early sixteenth century. Blue wash used to infill the blue-outlined design is a technique seen in the later fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.The spontaneous style of painting figures employed for decorating this blue-and-white jar was popular among artists of Jiangsu and Anhui in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, following the earlier styles of artists such as Wu Wei, Jiang Song and Wang Zhao. A hanging scroll, attributed to Jiang Song (active c. 1500), depicting a similar scene of ‘Taking a lute to visit a friend’, executed in ink and slight colour on silk, is in the British Museum.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:lotus landscape
Dimensions:Diameter: 5 centimetres (mouth) Height: 12.50 centimetres (with lid) Height: 9.60 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain jar with underglaze blue decoration. This jar has a narrow raised neck, rounded body and tapering foot. On the unglazed base the spiral marks resulting from turning the jar on the potter’s wheel are clearly visible. Inside the join of the upper and lower sections of the jar can be seen. On the outside an old man is shown in a landscape on one side and another, walking with a servant carrying a ‘qin’ wrapped in a textile cloth, on the other side; they are separated by plants and rocks. Around the neck is a double ring with banana leaves forming a collar; stylized lappets, like vertical long and short stripes, surround the foot. The cobalt blue appears black where it has not been covered by the blue-green glaze. Originally the jar would have had a domed cover with lotus-bud finial.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Blue-and-white jars of this form were made with minor variations in decoration and shape throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. They are found in a number of burials in both China and Chinese communities in the Philippines. The present jar may be dated by stylistic comparison to ajar of this type with similar decoration and with its cover intact which survived in a burial dated to the seventeenth year of Hongzhi (1504) in Jiangxi province, now in the Jiangxi Provincial Museum. Another jar of the same form and figural decoration was one of three excavated in 1972 in Jiangyang county, Jiangsu, from a tomb belonging to Xia Lianggui (1437-1513). The other two covered jars were decorated with lotus scrolls. Another was found in the Philippines, confirming that vessels of the same shape and decoration were made for the home and export markets in the early sixteenth century. Blue wash used to infill the blue-outlined design is a technique seen in the later fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.The spontaneous style of painting figures employed for decorating this blue-and-white jar was popular among artists of Jiangsu and Anhui in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, following the earlier styles of artists such as Wu Wei, Jiang Song and Wang Zhao. A hanging scroll, attributed to Jiang Song (active c. 1500), depicting a similar scene of ‘Taking a lute to visit a friend’, executed in ink and slight colour on silk, is in the British Museum.
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