Ming hongwu Blue and white tie up branch big pomegranate flowers

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the pie mouth, neck, shoulder, under gradually gathered, outer ring foot, whole modelling of a pomegranate, therefore calls the pomegranates. Subject ACTS the role of tie up lotus flower pattern, mouth along the grain next time a week, the best tattoo box. Close to act the role of Yang ascend a lotus-shaped box, in stripes and white back, box are acted the role of flowers. The foot wall act the role of volume grass grain. The old shape of pomegranate, popular Yu Hongwu dynasty. On blue and white color blue ash, and the black spots, is caused by high iron content. Blue and white porcelain characteristics of this period as the cobalt blue color is darker, decorative overelaborate of decoration style of yuan dynasty, in the belly theme grain bound branch lotus shins, with branches of ganoderma lucidum lines fully embody. Although the gap between the various grain more shu lang, the overall painting style is slightly different from the yuan dynasty, the lotus leaf is also less than full, the yuan dynasty lotus pattern screw shaped, rather than a gourd shape of yuan dynasty. Lotus-shaped lines from each flap separate, independent painting, instead is a lotus-shaped is linked together, and double color paint line, and not a simple description color in painting, make full of lotus shape more 3 d effect. This product at the bottom of the acerbity, see rough turning marks, similar to the yuan dynasty style. To sum up, this product should be of the yuan dynasty and early Ming dynasty in the combination of work and time characteristics are numerous and complicated, so the same kind of only a few.
except the product is still see meiyintang old Tibet “Ming hongwu Eight auspicious lotus flower grain tank “blue and white (see Regina krahl meiyintang China ceramics volume 4, no. 1623); After sotheby’s sale in Hong Kong on April 7th, 2011, no. 42. The two main differences are more obvious in terms of size, this product is 52.5 cm, meiyintang example is 50.5 cm, the rest of the green material, drawing, layout is consistent. Other comparable one sold at sotheby’s Hong Kong on May 3, 1994, no. 33, who is now an area with Mr Collection Collection, were included in the 100 Masterpieces of Imperial Chinese Ceramics from the Au Bakling Collection “(the royal college of art, London, 1998).
this product was born in the late yuan Ming this special period, which has opened up a new chapter of blue and white porcelain, is a rare category in the history of Chinese ceramics, reveal a distinctive times features, has profound academic significance, is also a rare imperial porcelain ware.