Period:Yuan dynasty Production date:1320-1368 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:incised, glazed, moulded,
Subjects:symbol dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 13.60 centimetres Height: 10 centimetres
Description:
Stem cup with moulded decoration, glazed blue inside and red-brown outside. This unusual stem cup has a rounded bowl with an everted rim and stands on a flared stem with thickened edge. Inside it is moulded in relief with two five-clawed dragons chasing one another around the cavetto amid lingzhi-shaped clouds. The dragons are powerfully designed with scaly sinewy bodies, S-curved necks and flexed claws. A high-fired monochrome mid-blue glaze coloured with cobalt covers the design inside. Where the glaze is thinly applied over the contours of the raised design the white porcelain is visible below. In the centre ruyi auspicious clouds are incised into the porcelain body. Outside the stem cup is covered with a dark red-brown monochrome glaze. Painted to just above the foot, this has crept away from the mouth rim. The hollow stem is unglazed, revealing a pure white body.
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![图片[1]-stem cup BM-1968-0423.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Yuan dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00254908_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-stem cup BM-1968-0423.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Yuan dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00352252_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Dating such ceramics is the subject of much controversy. Some scholars suggest a Yuan and others a Hongwu date for manufacture. Both camps are agreed on a fourteenth-century attribution. Although the designs are certainly similar to those found on underglaze red wares excavated from the Hongwu strata in 1988 on the west side of Zhonghua Road, they are even crisper and more detailed, suggesting a Yuan rather than a Hongwu date. We also know from other excavated pieces found at Fengcheng that underglaze red and underglaze blue were combined on single pieces in the Yuan whereas in the Hongwu era either underglaze blue or underglaze red was used. Indeed this colour combination is extremely rare. Conceivably it represents the blue of heaven and the red-brown of earth.Only a few examples combining monochrome blue with red-brown glaze survive. Another stem cup is in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA; a shallow dish is in the British Museum (see BM 1936.1012.240) and a deep bowl with the colours reversed (i.e. red-brown inside and blue outside) is in the Idemitsu Museum.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:incised, glazed, moulded,
Subjects:symbol dragon
Dimensions:Diameter: 13.60 centimetres Height: 10 centimetres
Description:
Stem cup with moulded decoration, glazed blue inside and red-brown outside. This unusual stem cup has a rounded bowl with an everted rim and stands on a flared stem with thickened edge. Inside it is moulded in relief with two five-clawed dragons chasing one another around the cavetto amid lingzhi-shaped clouds. The dragons are powerfully designed with scaly sinewy bodies, S-curved necks and flexed claws. A high-fired monochrome mid-blue glaze coloured with cobalt covers the design inside. Where the glaze is thinly applied over the contours of the raised design the white porcelain is visible below. In the centre ruyi auspicious clouds are incised into the porcelain body. Outside the stem cup is covered with a dark red-brown monochrome glaze. Painted to just above the foot, this has crept away from the mouth rim. The hollow stem is unglazed, revealing a pure white body.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Dating such ceramics is the subject of much controversy. Some scholars suggest a Yuan and others a Hongwu date for manufacture. Both camps are agreed on a fourteenth-century attribution. Although the designs are certainly similar to those found on underglaze red wares excavated from the Hongwu strata in 1988 on the west side of Zhonghua Road, they are even crisper and more detailed, suggesting a Yuan rather than a Hongwu date. We also know from other excavated pieces found at Fengcheng that underglaze red and underglaze blue were combined on single pieces in the Yuan whereas in the Hongwu era either underglaze blue or underglaze red was used. Indeed this colour combination is extremely rare. Conceivably it represents the blue of heaven and the red-brown of earth.Only a few examples combining monochrome blue with red-brown glaze survive. Another stem cup is in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA; a shallow dish is in the British Museum (see BM 1936.1012.240) and a deep bowl with the colours reversed (i.e. red-brown inside and blue outside) is in the Idemitsu Museum.
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