Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620
Materials:porcelain
Technique:underglazed
Dimensions:Diameter: 84 millimetres Height: 80 millimetres
Description:
Stem porcelain cup. Underglaze blue with numerous actual and mythical animals in reserve against blue waves. Same decoration continues on stem. Central roundel with reserved conch shell on waves inside. There is an inscription on the base.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming late 16th century Room 95 label text:PDF A670Blue-and-white stem cup with mythical sea creaturesThis blue-and-white stem cup has an apocryphal six-character underglaze blue Xuande reign mark on the base. The style of decoration outside is also in fifteenth century style. Descriptions of mythical sea creatures may be found in Shan Hai Jing [Classic of the Seas and Mountains], a book completed in the Han dynasty by Liu Xiang and his son, and revised and illustrated by Guo Pu in the Eastern Jin dynasty. This book records investigations by state officials on topics from astronomy to medicine, science to flora and fauna, medicine to archaeology. It regained popularity in the fifteenth century. A relationship between the sea-animal motifs and Tibetan Buddhism seems to have existed. It is probable that this stem cup was used at a Buddhist ceremony. Xuande period porcelains of this type are usually decorated with all nine sea creatures together, although the order of the animals varies and the spaces in between can be filled with crested waves, rocky cliffs and clouds. Later copies such as this have a selection of the creatures.Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, Wanli period, AD 1573–1620 PDF A670 青花海獸紋高足杯此青花高足杯外底署青花六字宣德寄託年款。外壁裝飾風格也呈現十五世紀的特徵。關於海中異獸的描述可見於《山海經》，此書由漢代劉向父子整理，東晉郭璞修訂並注釋。此書記錄了國家官員們的調查，題材涉及天文、醫學、科技、動植物、藥學及考古。此書於十五世紀再度流行。海獸圖案與藏傳佛教似乎存在一定的關聯。這件高足杯可能用於某種佛教儀式。宣德時期的此類瓷器通常一起裝飾所有九種海中異獸，但排列順序并不相同，異獸間還會填繪波濤浪峰、岩石懸崖（海水江崖）及雲紋。其後的仿品僅是有選擇的繪製部分海獸，正如此杯。瓷器，青花江西省景德鎮明代，萬歷，1573–1620年
Materials:porcelain
Technique:underglazed
Dimensions:Diameter: 84 millimetres Height: 80 millimetres
Description:
Stem porcelain cup. Underglaze blue with numerous actual and mythical animals in reserve against blue waves. Same decoration continues on stem. Central roundel with reserved conch shell on waves inside. There is an inscription on the base.
IMG
Comments:Published PDF date : Ming late 16th century Room 95 label text:PDF A670Blue-and-white stem cup with mythical sea creaturesThis blue-and-white stem cup has an apocryphal six-character underglaze blue Xuande reign mark on the base. The style of decoration outside is also in fifteenth century style. Descriptions of mythical sea creatures may be found in Shan Hai Jing [Classic of the Seas and Mountains], a book completed in the Han dynasty by Liu Xiang and his son, and revised and illustrated by Guo Pu in the Eastern Jin dynasty. This book records investigations by state officials on topics from astronomy to medicine, science to flora and fauna, medicine to archaeology. It regained popularity in the fifteenth century. A relationship between the sea-animal motifs and Tibetan Buddhism seems to have existed. It is probable that this stem cup was used at a Buddhist ceremony. Xuande period porcelains of this type are usually decorated with all nine sea creatures together, although the order of the animals varies and the spaces in between can be filled with crested waves, rocky cliffs and clouds. Later copies such as this have a selection of the creatures.Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, Wanli period, AD 1573–1620 PDF A670 青花海獸紋高足杯此青花高足杯外底署青花六字宣德寄託年款。外壁裝飾風格也呈現十五世紀的特徵。關於海中異獸的描述可見於《山海經》，此書由漢代劉向父子整理，東晉郭璞修訂並注釋。此書記錄了國家官員們的調查，題材涉及天文、醫學、科技、動植物、藥學及考古。此書於十五世紀再度流行。海獸圖案與藏傳佛教似乎存在一定的關聯。這件高足杯可能用於某種佛教儀式。宣德時期的此類瓷器通常一起裝飾所有九種海中異獸，但排列順序并不相同，異獸間還會填繪波濤浪峰、岩石懸崖（海水江崖）及雲紋。其後的仿品僅是有選擇的繪製部分海獸，正如此杯。瓷器，青花江西省景德鎮明代，萬歷，1573–1620年
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