Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1522-1566
Materials:porcelain, gold,
Technique:glazed, slipped, gilded,
Subjects:religious object flaming jewel dragon
Dimensions:Height: 15.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain ‘jue’ cup with decoration reserved in biscuit and gilded on a monochrome blue ground. This ‘jue’ has a cup shaped like an old-fashioned British fireman’s helmet turned upside down and it stands on three long faceted legs. On either side at the rim are parallel struts, topped with gilded bud-shaped knobs, and there is a loop handle on one side placed vertically at the base of the strut. The vessel is glazed inside and out with a rich monochrome blue glaze and decorated with a design reserved in the biscuit of two dragons fighting over a flaming pearl, their tails separated by a ‘ruyi’ cloud. Details such as their scales are applied in slip and covered with gilding, most of which remains. A six-character Jiajing reign mark, written in slip between the legs of the cup, is also gilded.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:This drinking cup is modelled in porcelain after an ancient bronze ritual wine vessel called a ‘jue’. ‘Jue’ are characterized by three long slender legs, a deep cup, a single side handle and two pillar struts. They were first made in bronze in the Erlitou culture in north China and soon afterwards were copied in ceramic as a substitute for burial in the cheaper material. In bronze the pillar struts were originally included to help in removing the cast vessel from its ceramic piece-mould, but in porcelain they are purely decorative. Originally such drinking vessels formed part of ritual banqueting sets. They were used to make wine offerings to ancestors to intercede in the spirit realm on behalf of the living. In the Ming period ‘jue’ wine cups were made with matching saucers with a raised central section, rather like a mountain, but no such saucer for this design of jue survives.This libation cup was made in a set for imperial ritual. Other identical cups are in, for example, the Baur Collection, Geneva, and the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London. An incense burner, two pricket candlesticks and two vases with fish-dragon handles, without rings, all with this type of decoration, are in the Musee Guimet, Paris, in the Grandidier Collection, and may have been part of an extended set. The combination of reserved white dragons on a deep blue ground is not an invention of the Jiajing era but was first experimented with in the Yuan period (see BM 1947.0712.231). Same tyoe see PDF A561
Materials:porcelain, gold,
Technique:glazed, slipped, gilded,
Subjects:religious object flaming jewel dragon
Dimensions:Height: 15.50 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain ‘jue’ cup with decoration reserved in biscuit and gilded on a monochrome blue ground. This ‘jue’ has a cup shaped like an old-fashioned British fireman’s helmet turned upside down and it stands on three long faceted legs. On either side at the rim are parallel struts, topped with gilded bud-shaped knobs, and there is a loop handle on one side placed vertically at the base of the strut. The vessel is glazed inside and out with a rich monochrome blue glaze and decorated with a design reserved in the biscuit of two dragons fighting over a flaming pearl, their tails separated by a ‘ruyi’ cloud. Details such as their scales are applied in slip and covered with gilding, most of which remains. A six-character Jiajing reign mark, written in slip between the legs of the cup, is also gilded.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:This drinking cup is modelled in porcelain after an ancient bronze ritual wine vessel called a ‘jue’. ‘Jue’ are characterized by three long slender legs, a deep cup, a single side handle and two pillar struts. They were first made in bronze in the Erlitou culture in north China and soon afterwards were copied in ceramic as a substitute for burial in the cheaper material. In bronze the pillar struts were originally included to help in removing the cast vessel from its ceramic piece-mould, but in porcelain they are purely decorative. Originally such drinking vessels formed part of ritual banqueting sets. They were used to make wine offerings to ancestors to intercede in the spirit realm on behalf of the living. In the Ming period ‘jue’ wine cups were made with matching saucers with a raised central section, rather like a mountain, but no such saucer for this design of jue survives.This libation cup was made in a set for imperial ritual. Other identical cups are in, for example, the Baur Collection, Geneva, and the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London. An incense burner, two pricket candlesticks and two vases with fish-dragon handles, without rings, all with this type of decoration, are in the Musee Guimet, Paris, in the Grandidier Collection, and may have been part of an extended set. The combination of reserved white dragons on a deep blue ground is not an invention of the Jiajing era but was first experimented with in the Yuan period (see BM 1947.0712.231). Same tyoe see PDF A561
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