Ming hongwu Blue and white lotus flower grain ewer

• auction

refer to: the 20th anniversary of sotheby’s Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 1993, no. 38

note: at the end of the yuan Ming is the most brilliant for the history of Chinese ceramics in one hundred, especially in jingdezhen, jingdezhen experience during the huge transformation, from the porcelain making technology, porcelain, to sales and consumption object category is different from former generation flatly, especially in the special demand for porcelain, promoted the quality of porcelain unprecedented increase, made famous jingdezhen’s porcelain, etc, to lay back in seven hundred, the achievements of epic proportions.
as the most characteristic of the dynasty blue and white porcelain, the number of rare, keep yuan blue and white on modelling the big strong, of primitive simplicity style of dignified, still continues in the decorative grain density and level of decorative features, but also show their unique personality, in the evolution of grain administrative levels feels a blue-and-white yuan shu lang, white space is increasing, this product is part of a rare case.
pot body is okho spring bottle style, ventral side of the long bend flow, flow and neck connection plate in a cloud, beautiful and practical, the design is clever. Curvy the handle to the other side, on a small, round originally led bound lid. Ware line is complex and changeable, natural and graceful and elegant. Connect body to blue and white to act the role ofing, rich layers, layout appropriate, without the feeling of overelaborate. Painted decorative brushwork is exquisite, delicate smooth, beautiful and vigorous. Decorative painting style is different from power, the lotus leaves less than full in the yuan dynasty, screw shaped, rather than a gourd shape of the yuan dynasty. Lotus also has narrowed, white space increases, people feel shu lang.
green color such as ink, an ink painting. Test according to the Shanghai institute of ceramics, hongwu official kiln cobalt blue material similar to yuan dynasty blue-and-white cobalt material contains ingredients, are introduced to the Persian high iron and low manganese green material. But the color is different from yuan dynasty to typical type is blue and green is gorgeous, also with the typical yongle and xuande periods imports is “green” Sue linen and gaudy colour and lustre.
this product was born in the late yuan Ming this special period, which opened a new situation, to blue and white porcelain is a rare category in the history of Chinese ceramics, reflect a distinctive times features, not only has profound academic significance, is also a rare imperial porcelain ware.