Ming chongzhen Stories of blue and white dream gaotang design cylinder

• RMB 414000
• HKD 509852
• USD 62100
• EUR 45540

this lip, neck microbeam, circular arc, flat slightly concave. Is seen here in a dew tire tire body at the bottom of the delicate white, tight tight. The outer wall of cylinder with blue and white paint gaotang dream story figure characters, images of a man lay down a few cases, children stand on the right. This person head fly out of the clouds, for dreams, four ladies two corresponded. Picture on the other side draw bamboo forest, in December, rocks, brush strokes slender, natural, elegant collocation of blue and white hair, a fairyland on earth.
this man lay in the grain fell a few cases but sleep, head have a dream, a dream is woman and other details can be the story may be defined as “dream gaotang”. “Dream gaotang” cult of zhaoming wenxuan volume 19 “gaotang fu”, tells (king and song yu in the cloud of the dream stage, looking at the view of gaotang, its on the clouds, and the king said why gas, song yu answer for the cloud, and ask what is the cloud, to lead a dream gaotang. According to song yu, the former king (huai) gaotang, first day but sleep, dreamed that the woman said to wushan female, gaotang guest, heard that the king gaotang, willing to pillow mat. After pregnant Wang Lin luckily, for its temple, to “the cloud”. Gaotang dream is used to meet men and women, since the word “wushan yunyu” namely.
in the Ming dynasty drama writer wang daokun creation “fu jedaiah hall, which included” dream gaotang “, “waterinfo sad”, “five lakes tour”, “distant mountains play” four stories, change the affair to drama, to convey the scholars at that time a kind of pleasure and emotional appeal. The official Tibetan plate “pure HuiXiu like famous drama” in the first volume in gaotang dream, the plot and zhaoming wenxuan similar, painted print illustration is more similar to this product very, know which lay down the sleeper for king huai, dream women’s center for WuShanShenNv.
the product painted wushan yunyu story based on a drama prints, but the image of the characters, clothing are typical chongzhen period. Due to the shape, stage of cloud dream also change represented by the pavilions railings. This romantic theme was adapted into drama in Ming dynasty, and map on the porcelain in the late Ming dynasty, as a desk to play in the study, and reflected the scholars at that time a kind of artistic appeal.