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sotheby’s in London on December 12, 1978, no. 380
related information of this blue and white gourd flat pot, the creation inspiration comes from the Middle East, shape and decorative pattern to open new prevailing custom of Chinese porcelain. Round flowers painted treasure, or bound up with the Middle East, only mouth along the flowers with a circle around branches below the ears, the branches of the flower pattern in China. Geometric ornamentation neat is rigorous, with wen wan flowing flowers, adding to the gas charm and beauty.
there is a similar blue and white gourd flat pot, at Christie’s in Hong Kong on May 30, 2015, no. 1451, in Hong Kong after sotheby’s hands, on October 8, 2013, no. 222. Otherwise, sotheby’s Hong Kong on November 24, 1981, no. 79. Istanbul top card than the palace Museum hide another similar flat pot, size slightly smaller, see Regina krahl figure, the Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul “, John Ayers, London, 1986, vol. 2, no. 616. See Shanghai museum, recorded in “blue and white magnetic device exhibition”, loose house ginza, Tokyo, in 1988, no. 16. Also one that has contemplation hall and Huang Dingxuan hidden, recorded in “the good GuMin o: min chiu society the 35th anniversary of the case”, the Hong Kong museum of art, Hong Kong, in 1995, no. 124, sotheby’s sale in Hong Kong on October 29, 1991, no. 29, after twice sold at Christie’s in Hong Kong on November 3, 1996, no. 545, and on November 28, 2006, no. 1512. Similar bian, bottle and a sotheby’s sale in Paris on December 18, 2009, no. 65.
ears flat pot type, investigate its root, back to its source and can be traced back to Egypt, earthen vessel, begins to burn in 18th dynasty (about 1543-1292 BC), popular for hundreds of years thereafter not exhaust. Six to seven centuries, in the Roman empire, Christianity ungodly ACTS to Alexandria near saint of minas tomb to worship, the local ceramic flat pot, for souvenirs, filled with water or oil, so this kind of pottery, Egypt to “St minas pot (St Menas flask)”. Almost at the same time, the Egyptian businessman into flat pot or with millet, beginning middle class example, and the first lead glaze ceramic replicas. To yongle, jingdezhen porcelain maker for its elegant, its type, but think of opportunely alone, wheatgrass plentiful freehand brushwork in traditional Chinese painting line, round flower exhibition on overlapping edges, all collapsed, and the model.
flat pot wonderful painting round flowers, geometric abstraction rules to design, with details in the Middle East, is different from the common pattern in China, its brand new, amazing, must stand out in the sketch designs of the former. But mouth ring painted Daisy carnation, renshi is tender, ribbon ears and compose fold branch flowers, light and beauty, relative round flowers, fine wish to follow a gender freehand brushwork in traditional Chinese painting, dark melt traditional elegance. Chinese and foreign details accumulate a device, soft hard and storage, bring out the best in each other.
blue-and-white Ming imperial porcelain, but also of the heart or the outer wall paint with similar round flowers, Beijing the imperial Palace Museum collection four yongle 盌 example, see figure GengBaoChang, the Palace Museum hid Ming blue and white porcelain “, Beijing, 2002, volume 1, chart, 61-64. |
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