Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1366-1386 (circa)
Materials:earthenware
Technique:glazed, moulded,
Subjects:leaf
Dimensions:Diameter: 7.50 centimetres Length: 24.50 centimetres
Description:
Tile with moulded decoration beneath a green glaze. This rectangular earthenware tile is moulded with a curvaceous leafy scroll and is covered with a thick rich emerald-green lead-fluxed glaze. Similar low-fired lead-glazed architectural elements have been recovered from the site of the Hongwu emperor’s palace in Nanjing, built between 1366 and 1386.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Zhu Yuanzhang captured Nanjing in 1355 and made it his power base to overthrow the Yuan regime, and it was there that he established himself as the first Ming emperor, Hongwu. He began work on the Nanjing palace in 1366, two years before he was proclaimed emperor, and building work continued on the edifice until 1386. The palace was located in the north-eastern part of Nanjing, comprising an area of 5 X 4 ‘li’ (about 2.7 X 2.2 km). It was laid out along traditional palace construction lines, resembling the extant Forbidden City in Beijing. It had four outer gates at the cardinal points, an inner city for the royal family with residential halls, protected by a wall, the ‘Yudai Jiang’ [Jade Belt River] and an outer administrative area with formal halls, ancestral, earth and grain temples. This palace complex was occupied by the Hongwu, Jianwen and Yongle emperors, but in 1421 the Yongle emperor moved the capital to Beijing and Nanjing became a secondary capital. Thereafter in the Ming dynasty the palace in Nanjing was lived in by members of the royal household and ministers. After a brief occupation during the Southern Ming in 1644 the Nanjing palace declined, and during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1853-63) it was destroyed by war. Now only the bases of the stone pillars together with remains of stone gates and bridges are visible.Seventy-two kilns were established in the early Ming era around Zhubaoshan near Yuhuatai in the south of Nanjing for producing architectural tiles and it is likely that the present tile was indeed made there. Unlike porcelain, which was transported all over China, most although by no means all architectural fittings were made near the buildings for which they were designed.
Materials:earthenware
Technique:glazed, moulded,
Subjects:leaf
Dimensions:Diameter: 7.50 centimetres Length: 24.50 centimetres
Description:
Tile with moulded decoration beneath a green glaze. This rectangular earthenware tile is moulded with a curvaceous leafy scroll and is covered with a thick rich emerald-green lead-fluxed glaze. Similar low-fired lead-glazed architectural elements have been recovered from the site of the Hongwu emperor’s palace in Nanjing, built between 1366 and 1386.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Zhu Yuanzhang captured Nanjing in 1355 and made it his power base to overthrow the Yuan regime, and it was there that he established himself as the first Ming emperor, Hongwu. He began work on the Nanjing palace in 1366, two years before he was proclaimed emperor, and building work continued on the edifice until 1386. The palace was located in the north-eastern part of Nanjing, comprising an area of 5 X 4 ‘li’ (about 2.7 X 2.2 km). It was laid out along traditional palace construction lines, resembling the extant Forbidden City in Beijing. It had four outer gates at the cardinal points, an inner city for the royal family with residential halls, protected by a wall, the ‘Yudai Jiang’ [Jade Belt River] and an outer administrative area with formal halls, ancestral, earth and grain temples. This palace complex was occupied by the Hongwu, Jianwen and Yongle emperors, but in 1421 the Yongle emperor moved the capital to Beijing and Nanjing became a secondary capital. Thereafter in the Ming dynasty the palace in Nanjing was lived in by members of the royal household and ministers. After a brief occupation during the Southern Ming in 1644 the Nanjing palace declined, and during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1853-63) it was destroyed by war. Now only the bases of the stone pillars together with remains of stone gates and bridges are visible.Seventy-two kilns were established in the early Ming era around Zhubaoshan near Yuhuatai in the south of Nanjing for producing architectural tiles and it is likely that the present tile was indeed made there. Unlike porcelain, which was transported all over China, most although by no means all architectural fittings were made near the buildings for which they were designed.
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