Ming wanli Blue and white color bucket wear flower dragon big crock

• RMB 4600000
• HKD 5263158
• USD 690000
• EUR 506000

exhibition: Japanese ancient ceramics, Chinese ancient fine arts exhibition, chamber of commerce in the mountains, Dec. 4-6, 1934, no. 304

note: dragon cylinder is in Ming dynasty, jingdezhen imperial which make a big is meant for use by imperial kiln cylinder, because the device used blue and white paint god named dragon decoration dragon cylinder. Such dragon cylinder production process is complex, takes work, according to the blue pu “jingdezhen TaoLu” records, a need for 19 days can fire dragon cylinder, kiln of pine wood burning more than thousands of pieces of small porcelain multi-purpose forty or fifty, even so the fire dragon cylinder also often ended in failure. All over the Ming was the pattern type, amplifier fire craft has significantly less, more rare precious legacy dragon cylinder.
items is the last imperial kiln products, dragon cylinder body thick, the shape of a huge, crock mouth fold along the painted blue and green color clouds grain decoration, positive written in regular script “daming Wan Linian” six regular script style. Two outer wall with a blue and white paint with flying, the markings painted Huang Cai ganoderma lucidum and lotus leaves, painted dragon posture embonpoint wham, mouth spits, windmill sharp claws, the lithe shuttle in ganoderma lucidum, extremely rich rhythm. , the whole machine drawing style bold strokes, the color saturation, wan li for colorful boutique, the colorful color material basic intact, are rare.
the British museum houses a blue-and-white Ming wanli Huang Cailong lines cylinder, with the same items, modelling, decorative design perspective.

refer to: “the British museum Ming dynasty porcelain”, published in the British museum co., LTD., 2001, pp. 331, photo Ⅱ:
144