Ming Blue and white live lines 8 square bottle gourd

• RMB 161000
• HKD 189858
• USD 24150
• EUR 17710

the bottle gourd bottle modelling complex and a small mouth, short neck, gourd shape body, ring foot, bottle drawing word lines, live at the bottom of the grain, separated in xiangyun, well-produced, neat appearance, composed, blue and white color decorative auspicious, the display is very rare.

the eight square implements made more complex, in the yuan dynasty blue and white, just saw a similar to eight pieces of size of the piece of clay mud paste by pieced together, hanging billet fettling again after forming, make difficult, gourd bottle this pick up Chinese characters “blessing” homophonic, to take the auspicious meaning, in the middle of the Ming dynasty began to see more, more for circle, using turning lathe screw billet forming, piecewise again after joining together, in the Ming jiajing wanli period, due to the Taoism prosperity, gourd and other Taoist multiplier is popular, eight party, six Fang Qi began to see more, do more for the use of apparatus, then on to the emperor, down to the civilians, the Taoist beliefs are feverish, emperor jiajing self-styled “on a dedicated system ray wonderful flying yuan yuan Yang true gentleman”, the court etiquette is wearing the crown, wearing cassock. Official kilns porcelain, also is given priority to with Taoist subjects more grain, so this kind of machine is relatively rare, is a witness the physical culture of Taoism in China.