Period:Qing dynasty Production date:18thC
Materials:stoneware
Technique:relief
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 3.30 inches Height: 2.60 inches
Description:
Water-dropper (lotus seed-shaped) applied in full relief. Made of Yixing stoneware.
IMG
![图片[1]-water-dropper BM-Franks.2462-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00356150_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-water-dropper BM-Franks.2462-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00153835_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-water-dropper BM-Franks.2462-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00356669_001.jpg)
Comments:Rawson 1992:Yixing is a town in Jiangsu province, inmediately north of Zhejiang province, renowned for red and brown unglazed wares known mainly in the West by the teapots they inspired in Germany (Bottger porcelain) and Staffordshire, and from which they are not always easily distinguished. Though kilns had existed in this area since the Song dynasty, it was in the late Ming that demand for wares became high, with the work of Shi Dabin, the most famous Ming potter. In the Qing dynasty Yixing teapots and small ornaments in natural form remained collectable and the written work ‘Yanxian minghu xi’ by Zhou Gaoqi (1695), for example, is devoted to the ware. The wares have an intricacy which matched the bamboo and wood carvings valued by the scholar-officials. It is this alignment with the values of the scholar-officials that contributed to the high esteem of Yixing ware. Its popularity with collectors has never waned, and the red and brown individually created wares of Yixing remain amongst the most highly priced contemporary Chinese ceramics.The lotus pod displays the interest amongst Yixing potters in modelling forms from the natural world; the contrasting clays are used to good effect, as is typical with the plant inspired pieces.
Materials:stoneware
Technique:relief
Subjects:lotus
Dimensions:Diameter: 3.30 inches Height: 2.60 inches
Description:
Water-dropper (lotus seed-shaped) applied in full relief. Made of Yixing stoneware.
IMG
Comments:Rawson 1992:Yixing is a town in Jiangsu province, inmediately north of Zhejiang province, renowned for red and brown unglazed wares known mainly in the West by the teapots they inspired in Germany (Bottger porcelain) and Staffordshire, and from which they are not always easily distinguished. Though kilns had existed in this area since the Song dynasty, it was in the late Ming that demand for wares became high, with the work of Shi Dabin, the most famous Ming potter. In the Qing dynasty Yixing teapots and small ornaments in natural form remained collectable and the written work ‘Yanxian minghu xi’ by Zhou Gaoqi (1695), for example, is devoted to the ware. The wares have an intricacy which matched the bamboo and wood carvings valued by the scholar-officials. It is this alignment with the values of the scholar-officials that contributed to the high esteem of Yixing ware. Its popularity with collectors has never waned, and the red and brown individually created wares of Yixing remain amongst the most highly priced contemporary Chinese ceramics.The lotus pod displays the interest amongst Yixing potters in modelling forms from the natural world; the contrasting clays are used to good effect, as is typical with the plant inspired pieces.
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