Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1450-1500 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:incised, glazed,
Subjects:fish lotus
Dimensions:Height: 40 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain meiping vase with incised relief decoration, glazed ‘qingbai’ on a mottled dark blue ground. This unusual meiping has rounded shoulders, tapering sides and a short tubular neck with thickened rim. It is decorated with motifs applied in relief and incised, glazed with a transparent blue-white glaze on a mottled dark blue ground. Three fish – a ‘gui’ [mandarin fish], ‘li’ [carp] and another variety of carp – are depicted in different attitudes among large flowering and budding lotus, growing in clusters, and other aquatic plants. Below this is a band of stylized crested waves. The base is smooth and unglazed with a narrow foot ring. This vase has been badly broken and is extensively restored.
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![图片[1]-meiping BM-1930-0719.44-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00355476_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-meiping BM-1930-0719.44-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00269643_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Nothing has been published to date from the Jingdezhen excavations which exactly matches this meiping. However, the formal arrangement of the lotus is very similar to that on a ‘doucai’ bowl excavated from a mid fifteenth-century context at Dongsiling, Jingdezhen. While reserved designs of fish among aquatic plants on a blue ground were first produced at Jingdezhen in the Xuande era, the quality of painting, porcelain and glaze suggest that the meiping was made later, in the fifteenth century.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:incised, glazed,
Subjects:fish lotus
Dimensions:Height: 40 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain meiping vase with incised relief decoration, glazed ‘qingbai’ on a mottled dark blue ground. This unusual meiping has rounded shoulders, tapering sides and a short tubular neck with thickened rim. It is decorated with motifs applied in relief and incised, glazed with a transparent blue-white glaze on a mottled dark blue ground. Three fish – a ‘gui’ [mandarin fish], ‘li’ [carp] and another variety of carp – are depicted in different attitudes among large flowering and budding lotus, growing in clusters, and other aquatic plants. Below this is a band of stylized crested waves. The base is smooth and unglazed with a narrow foot ring. This vase has been badly broken and is extensively restored.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Nothing has been published to date from the Jingdezhen excavations which exactly matches this meiping. However, the formal arrangement of the lotus is very similar to that on a ‘doucai’ bowl excavated from a mid fifteenth-century context at Dongsiling, Jingdezhen. While reserved designs of fish among aquatic plants on a blue ground were first produced at Jingdezhen in the Xuande era, the quality of painting, porcelain and glaze suggest that the meiping was made later, in the fifteenth century.
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