Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1465-1487
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, incised, fahua,
Subjects:plant lotus
Dimensions:Height: 31 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain meiping with incised and ‘fahua’-palette decoration. This meiping is unusual in its coloured decoration and shape. The palette employed relates closely to ‘fahua’ ceramics but the boundaries of the design are incised into the leather-hard body rather than outlined in trailed in slip beneath the glaze. Unlike most ‘fahua’ vases, it is not heavily potted but is rather finely worked with a short inwardly narrowing neck. It has rounded shoulders and tapering sides and the base is glazed within an outer foot ring. It is attractively decorated, incised and infilled on an ink-blue ground with polychrome enamels: turquoise, aubergine, yellow and green. White areas are created by the addition of a transparent glaze to the body. Around the neck are three individual simple flowers and around the shoulders a collar of ‘ruyi’ lappets, each framing a lotus flower with a ‘ruyi’ cloud motif in between. The main band shows budding and flowering lotus, ferns and other aquatic plants growing from a border of waves with stylized feathery crests, creating a very colourful and densely packed design. Around the foot is a band of stylized lappets. The rim, join of neck to body, shoulders, waist and foot are all outlined with incised double lines infilled with enamel. Both the body and the palette suggest that this meiping was made at Jingdezhen.
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Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, incised, fahua,
Subjects:plant lotus
Dimensions:Height: 31 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain meiping with incised and ‘fahua’-palette decoration. This meiping is unusual in its coloured decoration and shape. The palette employed relates closely to ‘fahua’ ceramics but the boundaries of the design are incised into the leather-hard body rather than outlined in trailed in slip beneath the glaze. Unlike most ‘fahua’ vases, it is not heavily potted but is rather finely worked with a short inwardly narrowing neck. It has rounded shoulders and tapering sides and the base is glazed within an outer foot ring. It is attractively decorated, incised and infilled on an ink-blue ground with polychrome enamels: turquoise, aubergine, yellow and green. White areas are created by the addition of a transparent glaze to the body. Around the neck are three individual simple flowers and around the shoulders a collar of ‘ruyi’ lappets, each framing a lotus flower with a ‘ruyi’ cloud motif in between. The main band shows budding and flowering lotus, ferns and other aquatic plants growing from a border of waves with stylized feathery crests, creating a very colourful and densely packed design. Around the foot is a band of stylized lappets. The rim, join of neck to body, shoulders, waist and foot are all outlined with incised double lines infilled with enamel. Both the body and the palette suggest that this meiping was made at Jingdezhen.
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