Ming yongle Blue and white grape grain fold along the plate

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in Tokyo, Japan’s private collection, Tibet in the 1980 s
the early Ming dynasty drive makes art, often with strong islamic or western style, this piece of yongle QingHuaPan grape grain is the perfect example. From grape is the emperor, in 128 b.c., the western envoy zhang qian back to the introduction of one of the central Asian herbs, up to the tang dynasty, beginning be the material of brewing grape. Grape grain rare on the early Chinese works of art, increasingly popular in the tang dynasty, such as the common sea grape grain on the bronze mirror. But until the early 15th century, grape grain on the China popular, became to the blue and white decoration.
but the same grain sizes of yongle may refer to a collection of Shanghai museum, see the blue and white porcelain exhibition: Shanghai museum hidden, Shanghai, 1998, no. 24; A for Gustav VI Adolf old, now in Stockholm Oriental museum, see the Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha series “, volume 9, Tokyo, in 1976, no. 216; A hidden Dave’s foundation the British museum collection, see the Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Red cooper Decorated Porcelains “, pp. 47-48, no. 685; A hidden in the burqa than Museum, Istanbul, see the Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul – II – the Yuan and Ming Dynasty Porcelains “, London, 1986, no. 606. The other five pieces of bill for Iran’s adriano temple collection, museum of ancient now Iran, see the J.A. Pope “Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil school”, London, 1981, no. 29.50-54.