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Details
- Other Title
- Tea bowl with slip design of prunus blossom
- Place where the work was made
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Jiangxi Province
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China
- Period
- Song dynasty 960 - 1279 → China
- Date
- circa 12th century
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- stoneware with a dark brown glaze and slip painted decoration
- Dimensions
- 5.0 x 11.1 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Graham E. Fraser 1988
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 519.1988
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Jizhou ware
Works in the collection
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About
The flowering plum blossom first appeared in the art of the Song dynasty in the twelfth century and has maintained its popularity as a motif in poetry, painting and the decorative arts to the present day. The emblem of winter, it appears with the peony, lotus and chrysanthemum to symbolise the four seasons. The plum blossom and moon form a striking design on this Jizhou ware teabowl produced in Jiangxi province in response to the local Song dynasty tea cult and its aesthetic preference for drinking pale green tea out of dark glazed bowls. The patronage of local scholar officials inspired Jizhou potters to decorate their ceramics using a variety of techniques. The simple, spontaneous brushwork of this piece is distinct from that of other locales around China. It is a brilliant interpretation of the early association of plum and moon.
'Asian Art', AGNSW Collections, 1994, pg. 194.
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Places
Where the work was made
Jiangxi Province
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Glorious, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 May 2017–06 Jan 2019
The Way We Eat, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Apr 2021–13 Jun 2022
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Jackie Menzies and Edmund Capon AM, OBE, Asian Collection Handbook, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Early Chinese Art', pg. 18-29, Sydney, 1990, 28 (colour illus.).
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Early Ceramics', Sydney, 2003, 106 (colour illus.).
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Jackie Menzies, AGNSW Collections, 'Asian Art - India, South-East Asia, China, Tibet, Korea, Japan', pg. 173-228, Sydney, 1994, 194 (colour illus.).
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