yuan Blue and white medallion cordyceps miscellaneous grain eight treasure vase

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this tank is eight square, shape and large, tire body is thick. Outer wall painted blue and white diamond medallion, with different grain insects, animals and plants, with a blue to white lotus, outside the mouth along, shoulder, leg each act the role of eight lotus-shaped, points act the role of fire in beads, miscellaneous, fold branch lotus treasure grain, the neck ring water lines for a week. No messy feeling, with the grain filled with dense green blue and white color more, in thick place see iron rust stain, reflects the development of Chinese ceramic to the yuan dynasty when reached a peak.
of jingdezhen in yuan dynasty when the first wife has developed two methods to make tire material, kaolin was introduced to the porcelain stone, improve the strength of porcelain at high temperature, reduce the deformation, made it possible to manufacture of large objects. Large objects such as bottles cut machine of molding process, is the first to Yin stamps billet section shape, then section, thus can be seen in implements the lining by hand or wipe cloth flat traces of wet mud. And need a more than eight square bottles, cans, and the outer wall body with plastic mould process, technology is extremely complicated, for the very characteristic and the rare type of yuan blue and white.
this pot originally gourd shape (figure 1). Turkey Topkapi palace than in possession of two yuan blue and white gourd bottle, the first (60 cm high) outside the abdominal wall act the role ofing to four diamond medallion, interior decoration, same but no grain, just above the fold branch lines to act the role of flowers, is available on the Chinese Porcelain Collections in theNear East Topkapi and Ardebil “, Hong Kong, in 1981, the number of the t. 29; Another one (60.5 cm) abdomen medallion, in between the upper and lower back covering the lotus-shaped full decoration painting of flowers and Chinese caterpillar fungus grain, see chap. Number on t. 28. Yamagata prefecture, Japan joined 粋 case (58.1 cm) high art collection, were identified as important cultural property, lower abdomen ornamentation and topkapi palace t. 28 basic same, but each edge grain medallion box to live, in the world ceramic magnetic corpora: liao. Gold. Yuan “, Tokyo, in 1981, possesses the 61-62. Another reference on the Palestinian national museum collection of a missing half bottle gourd, grain is relatively simple, lower abdomen main body are decorated with the tie up branch peony grains, neck, shin Yang fu lotus petals, flower grain interior folding branches, in Zhu Yuping “blue and white porcelain of yuan dynasty, Shanghai, 2000, figure 10-5. Although the above several examples of grain is not the same, but similar structure, use the yuan blue and white typical stacked grain aided decorative foil the main decorative combination. The tank is no exception, but the child adopted the technique of expression of blue to white, and the rest of the water blue flower grain mutual reflect, false or true balanced, honesty is valuable fine yuan blue and white painting.