Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1506-1521
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Height: 9 centimetres (with cover) Length: 20 centimetres Width: 11 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain rectangular pen box and cover with underglaze blue decoration. This rectangular box has a shallow cover and deep tray with a stepped base. The cover and tray are decorated with Arabic calligraphy in roundels and with formal lotus scroll work in pale grey-blue tones. On the base is a six-character underglaze blue Zhengde reign mark in a double square. There are four roundels on the cover, two on each side of the tray and a single roundel at both ends of the tray. Both pairs of inscriptions painted in the four roundels on the top are repeated on the long sides of the tray and the single roundels on the short ends are different again.
IMG
![图片[1]-pen-box BM-1973-0726.364.a-b-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00266566_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Another rectangular pen box of this type which appears to have identical Arabic inscriptions is in the private Tianminlou collection. A further example is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Height: 9 centimetres (with cover) Length: 20 centimetres Width: 11 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain rectangular pen box and cover with underglaze blue decoration. This rectangular box has a shallow cover and deep tray with a stepped base. The cover and tray are decorated with Arabic calligraphy in roundels and with formal lotus scroll work in pale grey-blue tones. On the base is a six-character underglaze blue Zhengde reign mark in a double square. There are four roundels on the cover, two on each side of the tray and a single roundel at both ends of the tray. Both pairs of inscriptions painted in the four roundels on the top are repeated on the long sides of the tray and the single roundels on the short ends are different again.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Another rectangular pen box of this type which appears to have identical Arabic inscriptions is in the private Tianminlou collection. A further example is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
© Copyright
The copyright of the article belongs to the author, please keep the original link for reprinting.
THE END
