Longquan ware
(China)
- Title
- Stem cup
- Other titles:
- Stemcup with ribbed stem
- Place of origin
-
Zhejiang Province →
China
- Period
- Ming dynasty 1368 - 1644 → China
- Year
- 14th century
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- celadon
- Dimensions
-
12.4 x 12.7cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Laurence G. Harrison 1997
- Accession number
- 379.1997
- Location
- Lower Asian gallery
- Further information
A variety of decorative devices were employed on Longquan ceramics yet they were admired ultimately for their colour, which ranged from a pale blue-green to grey-green to olive. Song Longquan is the most esteemed as it attained an excellence of glaze and style which has never been surpassed. The subtle colours and elusive beauty of celadon have been compared by poets to jade, which from deep antiquity was considered the most precious of stones and symbolised the moral virtues of the Confucian scholar.
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.108.
- Bibliography (3)
-
J. Hepburn Myrtle (Australia, b.1911, d.1998) (Author), Chinese porcelain of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, Sydney, 1977, 15. cat.no. 2
Mr V V W Fretwell (Australia) (Compilator), Mr L G Harrison (Australia) (Compilator), Ivan McMeekin (Australia, b.1919, d.1993) (Compilator), J. Hepburn Myrtle (Australia, b.1911, d.1998) (Compilator), Chinese ceramics, Sydney, 1965, 22, 41 (illus.). cat.no. 59
'Early Ceramics', The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 2003, 108 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (2)
-
Chinese Ceramics, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 11 Aug 1965–12 Sep 1965.
Chinese porcelain of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 18 Feb 1977–26 Jun 1977.
