Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1412-1431 (circa)
Materials:earthenware
Technique:glazed, moulded,
Dimensions:Diameter: 15 centimetres Length: 34 centimetres Width: 19 centimetres
Description:
Earthenware wall tile with green, yellow, brown and cream glazes. This immensely heavy wall tile shows in high relief the torso of a flying ‘apsara’, with hands clasped together in prayer, bare torso, skirt tied at the waist, arm and neck jewellery and with streamers swirling around. The wall tile is glazed green, yellow, cream and brown on a green ground.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001: It was probably made for the upper right-hand section of an ornamental gate at the ‘Da Bao’en si’ and may be compared to a reconstruction of the main gate illustrated in a recent exhibition catalogue. Construction of the ‘Da Bao’en si’ temple complex began in the Yongle reign in 1412 and was completed in the Xuande era in 1431.This architectural element was probably made in either Nanjing, Jiangsu province, or in Dangtu, Anhui province. Low-fired lead-glazed architectural elements, including bricks moulded with ‘apsaras’, lions, elephants and magical creatures, were excavated in 1958 at a kiln at Furongshan, near Yanxiang miao (Yanxiang temple), Nanjing, and further material of a similar nature was found in Dangtu county Anhui.Another wall tile decorated with a similar ‘apsara’, also from the pagoda of the ‘Da Bao’en si’, Nanjing, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Materials:earthenware
Technique:glazed, moulded,
Dimensions:Diameter: 15 centimetres Length: 34 centimetres Width: 19 centimetres
Description:
Earthenware wall tile with green, yellow, brown and cream glazes. This immensely heavy wall tile shows in high relief the torso of a flying ‘apsara’, with hands clasped together in prayer, bare torso, skirt tied at the waist, arm and neck jewellery and with streamers swirling around. The wall tile is glazed green, yellow, cream and brown on a green ground.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001: It was probably made for the upper right-hand section of an ornamental gate at the ‘Da Bao’en si’ and may be compared to a reconstruction of the main gate illustrated in a recent exhibition catalogue. Construction of the ‘Da Bao’en si’ temple complex began in the Yongle reign in 1412 and was completed in the Xuande era in 1431.This architectural element was probably made in either Nanjing, Jiangsu province, or in Dangtu, Anhui province. Low-fired lead-glazed architectural elements, including bricks moulded with ‘apsaras’, lions, elephants and magical creatures, were excavated in 1958 at a kiln at Furongshan, near Yanxiang miao (Yanxiang temple), Nanjing, and further material of a similar nature was found in Dangtu county Anhui.Another wall tile decorated with a similar ‘apsara’, also from the pagoda of the ‘Da Bao’en si’, Nanjing, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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