Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:eight precious things mammal symbol
Dimensions:Diameter: 12.90 centimetres (with handle) Height: 13 centimetres
Description:
Hexagonal porcelain tankard and cover with underglaze blue decoration. This tankard has a rounded hexagonal body, hexagonal foot and neck with a rolled rim, a high handle and flat six-sided cover with a lotus-bud knob. The decoration is predominantly of auspicious symbols. The cover is painted with five of the Eight Precious Things (see BM 1909.0611.1), the neck with artemisia leaf, the esvastika-shaped character ‘wan’, meaning all-encompassing good, a lozenge, ‘ruyi’ head and book, and the belly with different types of lotus, chrysanthemum and peony. The base is marked with a white rabbit or hare.
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![图片[1]-tankard(with lid) BM-Franks.753-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00266502_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-tankard(with lid) BM-Franks.753-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00875168_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Silver ware has inspired this tankard’s form. The rolled rim, thickened join of the neck to the body and flat lid are all more commonly found in metal work. It is possible that a European tankard was an inspiration for its form but it is more likely that the shape is a further development of earlier Near Eastern metal work forms (see BM 1950.0403.1). Such tankards were exported to Europe in the early seventeenth century. A tankard of the same form but with decoration of blue peaches and other auspicious emblems, on a white ground and with silver mounts, is included as part of a still-life oil painting by Floris van Schooten (c.1590-after 1655). Although the painting is undated, the arrangement of the foods on the table suggests an attribution to the first quarter of the seventeenth century. In 1963 this painting was in the Dennis Vanderkar Gallery.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:eight precious things mammal symbol
Dimensions:Diameter: 12.90 centimetres (with handle) Height: 13 centimetres
Description:
Hexagonal porcelain tankard and cover with underglaze blue decoration. This tankard has a rounded hexagonal body, hexagonal foot and neck with a rolled rim, a high handle and flat six-sided cover with a lotus-bud knob. The decoration is predominantly of auspicious symbols. The cover is painted with five of the Eight Precious Things (see BM 1909.0611.1), the neck with artemisia leaf, the esvastika-shaped character ‘wan’, meaning all-encompassing good, a lozenge, ‘ruyi’ head and book, and the belly with different types of lotus, chrysanthemum and peony. The base is marked with a white rabbit or hare.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Silver ware has inspired this tankard’s form. The rolled rim, thickened join of the neck to the body and flat lid are all more commonly found in metal work. It is possible that a European tankard was an inspiration for its form but it is more likely that the shape is a further development of earlier Near Eastern metal work forms (see BM 1950.0403.1). Such tankards were exported to Europe in the early seventeenth century. A tankard of the same form but with decoration of blue peaches and other auspicious emblems, on a white ground and with silver mounts, is included as part of a still-life oil painting by Floris van Schooten (c.1590-after 1655). Although the painting is undated, the arrangement of the foods on the table suggests an attribution to the first quarter of the seventeenth century. In 1963 this painting was in the Dennis Vanderkar Gallery.
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