KRUKA, porslin. Ming dynastin, Jiajings sex karaktärers märke och period (1522-1566).
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Balusterformad, dekor i underglasyrblått av fortlöpande trädgårdsscen med lekande gossar på terrass med balustrad, en grupp med läsande barn, en med gosse dragande vagn, en med barn lekande med snurra, ett barn ridande på käpphäst, anfang med stiliserad bård av lotusblad, på skuldran fyra reserver med frukter och blommor mot svastikamönstrad rutbård. Diameter 38, höjd 30 cm.
Nedslipad hals. Tillverkningsspricka undertill.
Proveniens
Emil Hultmark´s Collection.
Utställningar
Royal Academy, Stockholm 1942, no 382, plansch 26. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Chinese Exhibition 1928.
Litteratur
The Tsui Museum of Art, 1991, pl. 80. A jar from the Osaka museum without its cover is illustrated in Ming and Qing Ceramics of Art; another in the Museum of decorative Arts, Copenhagen, is illustrated by Lion-Goldschmidt in La Porcelaine Ming, a third in Chinese ceramics in the Idemitsu collection, and a fourth in the Jiangxi Fengchengxian Bowuguan is illustrated in Zhongguo Wenwu Jinghua Da Cidian, no 766, p. 393.
Övrig information
The 'boys' theme was popular in Sothern Song paintings, particularly those of small children at play by the Academic painter, Su Hanchen. Them imagery was particularly pertinent in later periods since it was good augury for the emperor to produce male heirs.