Jingdezhen ware
(China)
- Title
- Lotus pond bowl
- Other titles:
- Qingbai ware lotus pond bowl
Yingqing ware lotus pond bowl - Place of origin
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Jingdezhen →
Jiangxi Province →
China
- Period
- Yuan dynasty 1279 - 1368 → China
- Year
- 14th century
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- porcelain decorated with splashed brown iron spots and covered with a 'qingbai' glaze
- Dimensions
-
4.0 x 10.5cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Edward and Goldie Sternberg Chinese Art Purchase Fund 1999
- Accession number
- 106.1999
- Location
- Upper Asian gallery
- Further information
The bowl is modelled in the form of an oval-shaped pond with fluted sides and everted rim containing four modelled children playing amongst stemmed lotus and two fish. It is decorated with splashed brown iron spots and covered with a 'qingbai' glaze. The flat base is unglazed.
Apart from the vividness of modelled children playing amongst lotus fish, worth noting is the decoration of the splashed brown iron spots. One aspect of the decorative innovations of the Yuan potters lay in the tentative experiments with painted underglaze decoration. The 'qingbai' wares with iron oxide seemingly randomly spotted and splashed over the vessels are the earliest experiments in underglazed decoration. However, among examples of the same type this piece may display the least random use of iron spotting, since each boy's hair is carefully indicated.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, June 1999.
- Bibliography (5)
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John Guy (Australia; United Kingdom, b.1949) (Author), Oriental trade ceramics in southeast Asia, 10th to 16th century: selected from Australian collections, including the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Bodor Collection, Melbourne, 1980, 42, (illus.) 43. plate no. 36
'Asian Favourites' by Jackie Menzies, pg. 24-27., Look Sep 2003, Sep 2003, 27 (colour illus.).
'Export Ceramics', The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 2003, 135 (colour illus.).
'Goldie Sternberg. Benefactor' by Joanna Capon, pg. 618-620., Art and Australia (Vol. 41, No. 4) Jun 2004-Aug 2004, Jun 2004-Aug 2004, 618, 619 (colour illus.), 620.
John Guy (Australia; United Kingdom, b.1949) (Author), Oriental trade ceramics in South-East Asia: Ninth to sixteenth centuries, Singapore, 1986, 88, 90 (colour illus.). no. 43
- Exhibition history (3)
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Oriental Trade Ceramics in Southeast Asia 10th to 16th Century, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], 06 Jun 1980–20 Jul 1980.
Oriental Trade Ceramics in Southeast Asia 10th to 16th Century, Art Gallery of South Australia, 01 Aug 1980–31 Aug 1980.
Oriental Trade Ceramics in Southeast Asia 10th to 16th Century, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Oct 1980–09 Nov 1980.
