Ming jiajing Blue and white lotus pond in dragon vats

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note: the blue and white dragon and Shanghai museum jiajing cylinder is similar. Cylinder body thick, the shape of giant. Painted dragon brave, lithe style like that. Jiajing dragon this type cylinder outer wall for each general YunLongWen dragon wear and lotus flower grain decoration, so type to lotus pond flying grain decoration is extremely rare.
dragon cylinder is in Ming dynasty, jingdezhen imperial royal plant factory upon an imperial official kilns used vats, general shape is bigger, and sturdy, whether as a palace of grain, oil, such as storage, or is the water fire is very appropriate, still someone use this class implements a lotus, fish farming. Due to the body to use blue and white dragon decorative painting, so named dragon cylinder. Compared with other porcelain products, the class which is bigger, so it is called “dragon cylinder”. Jiaqing period, chang south blue pu jingdezhen TaoLu recorded: a dragon cylinder, need for 19 days time to burn Nv. And royal plant of dragon cylinder, vase of porcelain choose extremely strict, “hundreds of five” shall not be handed over to the court, to smash all the rest. In the Ming dynasty imperial which used to estimate, details porcelain jar, for silver 50828 money per piece, two sample porcelain jar, es per piece for silver. At a time when the average cost of royal porcelain, are only one or two silver. Due to the complexity of dragon cylinder making craft, and well work, dragon cylinder burn Nv in folk have been circulating a legendary story, such as the qing dynasty NianXiYao rebuilt the wind fire temple inscriptional record, b fire prodigy and biography and are mentioned in the dragon cylinder, other times TongXing kiln due to the fire dragon cylinder failure, but more of a plunge in the kiln, only big crock firing legend. B think dragon cylinder Nv made depends on children’s flesh rule, so to preach.

refer to: the Shanghai museum collection research series – royal porcelain of Ming dynasty, ming-hua lu, 2007, pp. 158, FIG. 3-84