Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1366-1400 (circa)
Materials:earthenware
Technique:glazed, moulded,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 17 centimetres Diameter: 5 centimetres
Description:
Earthenware ‘goutou’ tile terminal with moulded decoration beneath a yellow glaze. This circular goutou tile terminal has a raised border 2 cm wide and a relief-moulded dragon in the centre, covered with a golden-yellow glaze which has pooled on the lower edge. The dragon has a scaly sinewy body and paws with five flexed claws. It twists round, prancing on its front legs and turning its back legs under and over its tail.
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![图片[1]-roof-tile BM-Franks.920-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/43/00199633_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-roof-tile BM-Franks.920-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/43/mid_00254812_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A similar whole tile with its convex section attached at right angles was found in 1953, near the city wall at Zhongshan gate, north-east Nanjing, near the site of the Ming palace of the Hongwu, Jianwen and Yongle emperors.Franks records the tile as being from the ‘tombs of the first and second emperors of the Ming dynasty to the East of Nankin (sic). Built about 1400, and destroyed by the Taipings in 1853’. In fact the first emperor’s tomb, the Xiaoling, is in Nanjing, the location of that of the second emperor, Jianwen, is unknown and the third emperor, Yongle, was buried in the Changling in Beijing. It is probable that the tile comes from the Nanjing Ming palace (see BM 1923.0514.2), built between 1366 and 1386 and occupied until 1420.Such tiles were placed at the edge of the roof in horizontal lines to mask the ends of the ridges of concave and convex tiles descending from the top roof ridge. Other tiles of this type, also decorated with yellow glaze, are known from the same site. For example, a yellow tile with a dragon and a green tile decorated with a phoenix from the palace at Nanjing are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, collected by the famous sinologist William Percival Yetts (1878-1957) in 1908.
Materials:earthenware
Technique:glazed, moulded,
Subjects:dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 17 centimetres Diameter: 5 centimetres
Description:
Earthenware ‘goutou’ tile terminal with moulded decoration beneath a yellow glaze. This circular goutou tile terminal has a raised border 2 cm wide and a relief-moulded dragon in the centre, covered with a golden-yellow glaze which has pooled on the lower edge. The dragon has a scaly sinewy body and paws with five flexed claws. It twists round, prancing on its front legs and turning its back legs under and over its tail.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:A similar whole tile with its convex section attached at right angles was found in 1953, near the city wall at Zhongshan gate, north-east Nanjing, near the site of the Ming palace of the Hongwu, Jianwen and Yongle emperors.Franks records the tile as being from the ‘tombs of the first and second emperors of the Ming dynasty to the East of Nankin (sic). Built about 1400, and destroyed by the Taipings in 1853’. In fact the first emperor’s tomb, the Xiaoling, is in Nanjing, the location of that of the second emperor, Jianwen, is unknown and the third emperor, Yongle, was buried in the Changling in Beijing. It is probable that the tile comes from the Nanjing Ming palace (see BM 1923.0514.2), built between 1366 and 1386 and occupied until 1420.Such tiles were placed at the edge of the roof in horizontal lines to mask the ends of the ridges of concave and convex tiles descending from the top roof ridge. Other tiles of this type, also decorated with yellow glaze, are known from the same site. For example, a yellow tile with a dragon and a green tile decorated with a phoenix from the palace at Nanjing are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, collected by the famous sinologist William Percival Yetts (1878-1957) in 1908.
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