Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1465-1487
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bamboo symbol insect
Dimensions:Height: 38 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain meiping vase with underglaze blue decoration. This meiping has a short neck with an out-turned mouth and an unglazed speckled base. Beautifully painted in different shades of underglaze blue, it shows four flowering shrubs growing from rocks with insects hovering above and auspicious plants such as bamboo and lingzhi in between. Very dark blue lappets with flower heads encircle the foot, while around the neck there is an unusual border of overlapping brocades from which beaded gadroons hang. Above this is a ring of Y diaper and around the neck octofoil cartouches containing ruyi clouds interspersed with flower heads.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Although the overlapping brocade pattern is unusual, it may be seen ornamenting a late Chenghua period domed covered box, excavated at the imperial kiln site at Jingdezhen. The style of painting is unusual too. It is much stiffer than that of other fifteenth-century porcelains and follows a professional painting style. Another carved box, excavated in the Chenghua remains at Zhushan, exhibits identical painting style and treatment of insects and plants to those of the present piece. It also shows the same variations in the cobalt colours on a single piece from blackish blue to pale tones. Such designs would have trickled through to the commercial kilns and been adapted later.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:bamboo symbol insect
Dimensions:Height: 38 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain meiping vase with underglaze blue decoration. This meiping has a short neck with an out-turned mouth and an unglazed speckled base. Beautifully painted in different shades of underglaze blue, it shows four flowering shrubs growing from rocks with insects hovering above and auspicious plants such as bamboo and lingzhi in between. Very dark blue lappets with flower heads encircle the foot, while around the neck there is an unusual border of overlapping brocades from which beaded gadroons hang. Above this is a ring of Y diaper and around the neck octofoil cartouches containing ruyi clouds interspersed with flower heads.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Although the overlapping brocade pattern is unusual, it may be seen ornamenting a late Chenghua period domed covered box, excavated at the imperial kiln site at Jingdezhen. The style of painting is unusual too. It is much stiffer than that of other fifteenth-century porcelains and follows a professional painting style. Another carved box, excavated in the Chenghua remains at Zhushan, exhibits identical painting style and treatment of insects and plants to those of the present piece. It also shows the same variations in the cobalt colours on a single piece from blackish blue to pale tones. Such designs would have trickled through to the commercial kilns and been adapted later.
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