Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1628-1644 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, incised, underglazed,
Subjects:plum blossom/tree plant penjing vessel leaf
Dimensions:Height: 43.50 centimetres
Description:
‘Rolwagen’ porcelain vase with underglaze blue and incised decoration. This cylindrical ‘rolwagen’ vase has straight sides and a short waisted neck which flares out at the mouth. Its base is unglazed and slightly depressed in the centre. Outside it is painted in vibrant blue with a succession of vessels containing plants and flowers. These are: a vase with flowers and ring handles, a ‘penjing’ in which a rock stands, a vase containing plum blossoms, a ‘penjing’ with plantain, a vase with hollyhocks and two small ‘meiping’ vases. Incised below is a band of zigzag and above a band of foliage scroll. Around the neck is a band of inverted alternating large and small leaf tips.
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![图片[1]-vase(rolwagen) BM-Franks.114-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00066275_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-vase(rolwagen) BM-Franks.114-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00254076_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:In addition to the late Ming form of the vase and the violet-blue cobalt, areas are covered with V-shaped brush strokes which are typical of the Chongzhen era. Collecting antiques was a fashionable pastime of the literate elite in the late Ming period and an essential prerequisite for cultured status. Many details on porcelains show scholars amusing themselves by showing prized scrolls and artefacts to their guests. Such collecting and appreciating of antiques suggests parallels with scholars in medieval Europe. An earlier jar in the Toguri Museum in Tokyo, dating to the first half of the fifteenth century, shows a woman appreciating a hanging scroll. A famous ink and colour on silk hand scroll, dated 1437, attributed to Xie Huan (active c. 1420-c. 1450), in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, entitled ‘Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden’, shows three courtly scholars with their attendants in a garden surrounded by tables bearing antiques and the accoutrements of scholarship: a ‘qin’ wrapped in a cloth cover, writing equipment, hand scrolls and contemplative rocks.Compare with BM Franks.1673.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, incised, underglazed,
Subjects:plum blossom/tree plant penjing vessel leaf
Dimensions:Height: 43.50 centimetres
Description:
‘Rolwagen’ porcelain vase with underglaze blue and incised decoration. This cylindrical ‘rolwagen’ vase has straight sides and a short waisted neck which flares out at the mouth. Its base is unglazed and slightly depressed in the centre. Outside it is painted in vibrant blue with a succession of vessels containing plants and flowers. These are: a vase with flowers and ring handles, a ‘penjing’ in which a rock stands, a vase containing plum blossoms, a ‘penjing’ with plantain, a vase with hollyhocks and two small ‘meiping’ vases. Incised below is a band of zigzag and above a band of foliage scroll. Around the neck is a band of inverted alternating large and small leaf tips.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:In addition to the late Ming form of the vase and the violet-blue cobalt, areas are covered with V-shaped brush strokes which are typical of the Chongzhen era. Collecting antiques was a fashionable pastime of the literate elite in the late Ming period and an essential prerequisite for cultured status. Many details on porcelains show scholars amusing themselves by showing prized scrolls and artefacts to their guests. Such collecting and appreciating of antiques suggests parallels with scholars in medieval Europe. An earlier jar in the Toguri Museum in Tokyo, dating to the first half of the fifteenth century, shows a woman appreciating a hanging scroll. A famous ink and colour on silk hand scroll, dated 1437, attributed to Xie Huan (active c. 1420-c. 1450), in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, entitled ‘Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden’, shows three courtly scholars with their attendants in a garden surrounded by tables bearing antiques and the accoutrements of scholarship: a ‘qin’ wrapped in a cloth cover, writing equipment, hand scrolls and contemplative rocks.Compare with BM Franks.1673.
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