FAT, porslin. Qingdynastin, Kangxi (1662-1722).
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Mitten dekorerad med stor fyrkload drake samt fenixfågel, båda omgivna av flammor och molnformationer. Brättet dekorerat med paneler med olika mytologiska djur så som Qilin, ziezhi, baize och den bevingade hjorten alternerat med pioner, lotus och krysantemum. I mitten av undersidan ett av de dyrbara objekten inom dubbla ringar. Diameter 36,7 cm.
Spricka, lagad.
Proveniens
Purchased from Guest & Gray, London, March 2004.
The Avalon Collection.
This collection, which in the main focuses on the Interregnum and Kangxi periods has been both carefully and sensitively formed over the last twenty-five years. The collector, a member of the English Oriental Ceramic Society, has assembled the collection with an eye for provenance whilst purchasing from old European collections, well-established antique dealers and at auction.
Academically, the pieces have been well researched both in terms of their symbolism and narrative themes. In many instances the imagery on the pieces has been referenced to episodes in the romantic and historic novels of Chinese mythology, which were used extensively in the decoration of seventeenth century Chinese porcelain.
Litteratur
An identical dish is illustrated by Eva Strober in “Symbols on Chinese Porcelain”, No 18.
Övrig information
It seems probable that the creature with the doglike head and body, paws and tail of a Buddhist lion is a xiezhi. This was considered to be an extremely fierce animal with the ability to distinguish between good and evil. In the same way the baize, with the head of a dragon, two horns and the body of a lion is distinct from the qilin, in that its scales only appear on the shoulders and flanks as opposed to its entire body.
A dragon together with a phoenix is indicative of a conjugal pairing and is still popular as a wedding motif. In the pairing, the dragon represents the yang force and the phoenix the ying – a representation often used for the emperor and empress.