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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Southern China
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China
- Date
- 18th century-19th century
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- porcelain with underglaze blue decoration and a metal band around the rim
- Dimensions
- 3.7 x 11.5 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Max and Cynthia Loveday 2011
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 128.2011
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Southern kilns
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About
The poem on this bowl refers to an aspect of Chinese philosophy which maintains that if one understands the meaning of something, the vehicle that led to this understanding is unimportant (eg if you truly understand music then the sound itself becomes irrelevant). This piece resembles the ‘bleu de Hue’ wares exported to Viet Nam. The French term 'bleu de Hue' (literally, 'the blue of Hue') refers to the blue and white porcelain commissioned for the Vietnamese court in Hue during the Nguyen dynasty (1802–1945). The porcelain was produced at the kilns of Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, September 2011
