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The term "literary room" first appeared in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, including pens, ink, paper, stones and related supplies, and the utensils and furnishings in the study room can be called the study room Qing offering or the literary room elegant play. In the Ming Dynasty, Wen Zhenheng discussed dozens of kinds of literary play in the "Chronicle of Long Things", such as incense burners, incense boxes, tendon bottles, and water injections. "For idleness in the world, for the elderly." Although the wenfang Qing play is multi-body and light, it is an important part of the spiritual aesthetics of traditional Chinese literati, and it is also part of the art of Ming court utensils.
In the 15th century, the Ming court used porcelain Chinese Fang Qing offerings also appeared in large quantities, mostly with the purpose of reviving the cultural elegance of the Song Dynasty, especially during the Xuande Emperor period, who was good at painting, saw porcelain stones, porcelain boxes, stone drops, pen washing, incense burners, flower zun and other varieties, with correct styles and fine colors. These were also important literary porcelains sung by the royal family and the upper class literati.
Moon white glaze out of the halberd
Ming 15th century
Height 26.1cm Caliber 22.1cm Base diameter 16.7cm
Collection of Shanghai Museum
The body is decorated with a rectangular halberd, commonly known as the "out of the halberd". Since the Song and Ming dynasties, the retro style has prevailed, and this statue is imitated from the shape of a copper wine vessel in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, but it has been converted into a flower vessel in the study, often only displayed on the desk for flowers or corals. This statue is a Product of Junzhou Kiln and is also a typical vessel type in the "Guanjun" flower vessel.
Different from the characteristics of the Southern Song Dynasty official kiln and the Longquan kiln out of the halberd, this piece of the out of the sword is obvious, and the shape has typical Ming Dynasty characteristics.
Character Story Album (Partial)
Ming Qiuying
Collection of the Palace Museum
Blue-and-white dragon pattern water injection
Ming Xuande (1425–1435)
Height 10.9 cm Caliber 1.6 cm Bottom diameter 3.6 cm
In 1984, the ruins of zhushan royal kiln factory in Jingdezhen were excavated
Collection of Jingdezhen Ceramic Archaeology Institute
This water injection is a long-necked bamboo knot type, and the sub-mouth of the cover is long-tubular, and it is not easy to fall off when inserted into the neck. The stream is a mouth-mouthed dragon head, and the dragon neck is vertically written in the "Daming Xuande Year System". The handle is also a dragon with a dragon's tail curling grass, painted in blue and white on both sides of the abdomen. The image of the dragon pattern is very vivid, and it is a good literary vessel in the Xuande official kiln.
Black glazed square lid box
Ming Yongle (1403–1424)
Height 7 cm Caliber 5.9 cm Bottom diameter 6.8 cm
In 1984, the ruins of zhushan royal kiln factory in Jingdezhen were excavated
Collection of Jingdezhen Ceramic Archaeology Institute
The lid is slightly raised, the four corners are slightly collapsed, and the shape is generous and full. The box was excavated in the late Yongle formation in 1984 together with the five-clawed dragon pattern plate, and the black glaze ware is the only one piece of the porcelain piece counted in several tons, which is extremely precious.
Blue-and-white fish algae pattern sunflower petal wash
Ming Xuande (1426-1435)
Height 4.5 cm Caliber 18.2 cm Base diameter 14.4 cm
Collection of Tianjin Museum
Glazed throughout, decorated with blue and white flowers. The inner and outer walls are painted with fish algae patterns. At the bottom of the vessel is the green material book "Daming Xuande Year System".
The late Ming Dynasty Tulong's "Examination of the Remaining Matters" lists many ceramic pen washes at the kiln mouth: "Potters, there are officials, geyuan washes, sunflower washes ... There is Longquan Pisces wash, chrysanthemum petal wash... There are Xuanyao fish algae washing, sunflower petal washing, chime mouth washing, drum-like green white mantis washing. "The Palace Museum's collection of Xuanyao fish algae washing can also correspond to this late Ming literature."
Imitation Song official kiln ware
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the two Song dynasties, which were committed to restoring the Xia Lile civilization, were highly respected by the Ming court for the three generations and the revival of Confucianism, and the shape and aesthetics of court porcelain were influenced by the Song Dynasty. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial Kiln Factory began to imitate the products of the Northern Song Dynasty Ru kiln and the Southern Song Dynasty official kiln. During the Ming Hongwu Dynasty, Cao Zhao's "Treatise on gegu essentials" volume VII "Official Kiln" article contains: "The official kiln vessel Song Xiu Neisi burner, the soil vein is fine, the color is green and pink, the thickness is different, there are crab claw patterns, purple mouth iron feet, and the good color is similar to the Ru kiln." "It can be seen that the early Ming Dynasty mastered the characteristics of the Song official kiln.
Judging from the current excavated data, the Xuande and Chenghua Dynasties in the Ming Dynasty official kilns have imitation Song official kilns. Xuande official kiln imitation Song Ru, official kiln glaze color varieties are quite a lot, glaze color is also more innovative. Chenghua imitation Song guan kiln ware process is more refined, glaze color and shape is closer to the Song Dynasty Xiu Nei Siguan kiln ware, very "Song yun".
Imitation Song official kiln green glazed gooseneck bottle
Ming Chenghua (1465–1487)
Height 22.2cm Caliber 6.6cm Base diameter 7.6cm
In 1988, the ruins of the Zhushan Royal Kiln Factory in Jingdezhen were excavated
Collection of Jingdezhen Ceramic Archaeology Institute
The glaze color of this bottle is lake green, the glaze is open like an iron wire pattern, and the sole of the foot is exposed as an "iron foot", which is an imitation Song official kiln product.
Gooseneck bottles get their name from the fact that the neck is thick and gooseneck-like. The name "gooseneck" is not found in the Song Dynasty literature, and the Ming Dynasty is juxtaposed with the gall vase, which appears in a large number of works related to flower utensils, and is one of the favorite flower shapes of the people at the time. In the "Vase Of Flowers" in Ming Gaolian's "Eight Notes on Zunsheng" volume 14 of the "Yan XianQing Appreciation Notes", it is said that the vase flowers in the bookstore should be set up "should be short and small, with short bottles of brothers, paper mallet bottles, gooseneck bottles, flowers, and high and low bagua square bottles... Flower arrangements are available".
Stove bottle three things
The incense burner appears in groups with incense boxes and spoon bottles as incense utensils, that is, the "three things of the stove bottle". During the Tang and Song dynasties, incense burners, incense stick bottles, incense boxes, and incense spoon tendons have begun to appear, and the "three things of the furnace bottle" composed of incense burners, incense boxes and spoon bottles in the incense burning utensils of the Southern Song Dynasty at the latest have been completed. In the Ming Dynasty, the three things of the furnace bottle were not only the daily elegance of the literati and the decoration of the hall, but also the ritual instruments of the royal official temple. Zhu Quan, the seventeenth son of the Hongwu Emperor, compiled the "Seven Essentials of Incense Burning" to expound the law of incense burning utensils, which shows that the Ming Dynasty incense utensils have formed a perfect normative system.
Copper incense sticks, copper tendon bottles, silver spoon bars, silver imitation rhinoceros sword ring box
Southern song dynasty
In 1987, the Southern Song Dynasty tomb in Feilangkou Village, Lanxi, Zhejiang Province, was excavated
Collection of Lanxi City Museum
At present, the earliest complete set of furnace bottles has been found
"Royal Garden Viewing Map" (partial)
Ming Chenghua
Xianzong Dou quail and incense table stove bottle three things part
Private collection
Imitation glaze like ear incense sticks
Ming Chenghua (1465–1487)
Height 18.3cm Caliber 26.2cm Base diameter 17.5cm
In 1987, the ruins of the Zhushan Royal Kiln Factory in Jingdezhen were excavated
Collection of Jingdezhen Ceramic Archaeology Institute
This furnace was excavated at the same time as the spoon bottle in Jingdezhen Longzhuge Ming Dynasty Imperial Factory Chenghua formation accumulation. The abdomen is symmetrically placed with elephant ears, and the inside and outside are glazed with open pieces, and the outsole is signed with blue and white italics "Daming Chenghua Year System". The incense stick is a furnace type that was used by the Ming Dynasty literati Yaji Space, and this furnace was not selected due to its deformation after firing.
Imitation Song official kiln green glaze through the ear spoon bottle
Ming Chenghua (1465–1487)
Height 12.2cm Caliber 2.7cm Base diameter 3.3cm
In 2003, the ruins of the Zhushan Royal Kiln Factory in Jingdezhen were excavated
Collection of Jingdezhen Ceramic Archaeology Institute
The spoon bottle is a utensil for placing incense spoons and incense sticks, and is also known as "incense pot" in the Song Dynasty's "Chen's Incense Spectrum", mostly made of metal and ceramics.
Eighteen Bachelors Diagram (Partial)
Ming Du Wei (paragraph)
Collection of Shanghai Museum
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