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brush
Object Type
brush
Museum number
PDF.627
Description
Brush with porcelain handle, which has a small knob and a long handle widening into a round end where the brush is inserted. There are chrysanthemum, peony and lotus scrolls, reserved in white against an underglaze cobalt blue ground on the handle, and a scroll band with two white ogival panels containing blue five-clawed dragons near the brush end. There is a mark on the handle.
Cultures/periods
Ming dynasty
Wanli
Production date
1573-1620
Production place
Made in:
Jingdezhen
Materials
porcelain
Technique
underglazed
Dimensions
Diameter:
305 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Published PDF date : Ming Wanli 1573-1620
Room 95 label text: PDF 627 Blue-and-white writing brush Educated Chinese men regarded calligraphy and painting as the highest of all the art forms. They call brush, ink, ink-stone and paper 文房四寳 (wenfang sibao ‘the four treasures of a scholar’s studio’). The brush, made for the Wanli emperor, was probably used for writing large characters. Brushes were made from a variety of animal hair, with handles of wood, bamboo, lacquer and other materials, but seldom of porcelain. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue and (tip) animal hair Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮 Ming dynasty, Wanli mark and period, AD1573–1620
PDF 627 青花毛筆 受過教育的中國人將書畫視作所有藝術中之最高形式。他們將筆、墨、紙、硯稱為“文房四寶”(意為書房中的四種珍寶)。此筆為萬曆皇帝所制,可能以之書寫大字。筆頭用多種動物毛製成,筆柄有木、竹、漆及其他材質,瓷質頗少。 瓷器,青花,動物毛筆頭 江西省景德鎮 明代,萬曆,萬曆款,1573-1620年
Bibliographic references
Pierson 2004 / Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(p.27, no.627, ill.p.4)
Medley 1976 / Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains
(p.19, no.627, pl.I)
Scott 1989b / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection
(p.82, no.73)
Scott & Kerr 1994 / Ceramic Evolution in the Middle Ming Period
(p.31, no.57)
Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(Monochrome pl. 172)
Pierson 2004A / Blue and White for China: Porcelain Treasures in the Percival David Collection
(pp 100-101, no. 42)
Location
On display
(G95/dc57/s3)
Department
Asia
Registration number
PDF.627