writing-box BM-PDF-B.611

Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1573-1620
Materials:porcelain
Technique:underglazed

Dimensions:Height: 88 millimetres Width: 308 millimetres Depth: 217 millimetres

Description:
Rectangular writing porcelain box. Underglaze blue with primary scene in ogival panel on cover of a scholar seated in front of a screen with attendants. Similar scenes in rectangular panels around sides, on dense diaper ground. Large spray of five flowers and leaves . Large fruiting tree on bank of a river on lower inside part. There is an inscription on the base.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Ming Wanli Room 95 label text:PDF B611 Box and cover with figure scenes This rectangular box, constructed from thick slabs of porcelain clay, has a cover which fits over the sides of its tray and rests on the top of the protruding rectangular base. It is decorated on the cover with a scholar seated in front of a screen with attendants in a garden, and around the sides with related scenes of scholars and their servants. Potters at Jingdezhen used a wider range of figural subjects in the sixteenth century than in earlier times. Although most potters would have been illiterate, this increase in the diversity of figural scenes may indirectly be a response to the wider circulation of illustrated woodblock-printed stories, novels and plays written in the easier to understand vernacular, as opposed to classical, Chinese. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decorationJingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮Ming dynasty, Wanli mark and period, AD1573–1620 PDF B611 人物圖蓋盒長方形蓋盒用厚瓷泥板拼鑲而成，蓋子覆蓋瓷盒四壁，落在長方形底板上。盒蓋上繪園林中文人坐在屏風前，伴有侍從；四壁有文人及侍從的關聯場景。景德鎮的陶工在十六世紀使用了比以前更為多樣的人物題材。盡管多數陶工估計是文盲，人物場景多樣性的增加，或許仍然直接反映了帶有版畫的故事、小說、戲劇等木刻刊行物的更廣泛流通，這些作品不用文言文，而是用更容易理解的白話文寫成。瓷器，青花江西省景德鎮明代，萬曆，萬曆款，1573-1620年