bowl
- Museum number
- PDF,A.690
- Description
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Small porcelain bowl with straight sides. Underglaze blue with three friends of winter motif: pine, flowering prunus and bamboo trees. Band of overlapping petals around base. Inscription inside foot on base.
- Production date
- 1628-1644
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 72 millimetres
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Height: 38 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Ming Chongzhen 1628-44
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Room 95 label text:
PDF A690
Tea bowl with Three Friends of Winter
Chinese people read this design of pine, bamboo and prunus as the 歲寒三友 (suihan sanyou ‘The Three Friends of Winter’). Pine trees are evergreen and grow for a long time, representing stability and longevity; bamboo, another evergreen, symbolises the educated Confucian, an ideal gentleman-scholar who should be like a bamboo stem, bending not breaking in adverse conditions; and the plum stands for purity as well as leadership, as it is the first flower to bloom in China in the New Year. There is a Chongzhen reign mark on the base.
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
Ming dynasty, Chongzhen mark and period, AD 1628–1644
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PDF A690
歲寒三友圖茶碗
中國人將松、竹、梅組成的紋飾圖案稱為“歲寒三友”(意為冬天的三位朋友)。松樹,長青且生長時間長,代表穩定與長壽;竹子,另一種長青植物,象徵有修養的儒家,即君子應該像竹節一樣,直面逆境彎韌不折;梅花代表純潔,亦象徵領袖風范,因其為中國新春開放的第一種花卉。外底署崇禎年款。
瓷器,青花
江西省景德鎮
明代,崇禎,崇禎款,1628–1644年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc23/sh7)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF,A.690