The Iranian Museum with a collection of 28 yuanqinghua
Wuhua Tianbao Art 2021-08-21 16:01
Today, the world's museums are famous for their collections of Yuan/Early Ming Blue Flowers, the Topkapi Museum in Turkey ranks first, the Adbil Temple collection in Iran ranks second, and the Gao'an Museum in Jiangxi Province, China ranks third. Chinese porcelain in Turkey is familiar, but Iranian Chinese porcelain is hidden.
Ardabil Temple Complex in Iran
Most of the Chinese cultural relics in other countries were obtained through war, looting or smuggling. The Chinese blue and white porcelain collected by the Iranian museum is the result of the peaceful and friendly trade between China and it on the Silk Road for thousands of years.
Elegant and exquisite Chinese blue and white porcelain not only swept the Iranian court, but also the rich nobles also competed for it and regarded it as a treasure.
The Ardabil Museum is the museum with the largest collection of Chinese porcelain
Located on a plateau 1,500 meters northwest of Iran, near the Caspian Sea and Azerbaijan, Ardabil has been the meeting point of two trade routes from Tabriz to the Caspian Sea and Astrakhan to central Iran since ancient times. The Mongols razed it to the ground in 1220 and established the Mongol Empire as a vassal of the Ilkhanate, and porcelain was a gift from the Chinese emperor.
Aldabil Temple Complex
Inside the Temple of Ardabil there is a famous "porcelain house", which is a niche installation designed and matched for porcelain. Inside is a square domed lobby with four large niches. Below is a tiled floor with a carved wood on the wall to form an alcove for the placement of precious porcelain, shaped exactly like porcelain, resembling a collector's display case or museum. This batch of porcelain has escaped natural and man-made disasters such as earthquakes and wars, and has been passed down to this day, which is a great blessing.
Most of the collection of Chinese porcelain in the Islamic Pavilion of the National Museum of Iran comes from the Adbir Mosque
The Ardabil Museum is by far the largest collection of Chinese porcelain in Iran. Among them, more than 100 pieces of porcelain are mostly blue and white porcelain of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the shape of the vessel is medium to large. In addition, there are 28 pieces of Yuan Qinghua porcelain in the collection, which is the second largest collection of yuan qinghua in the world.
Panoramic view of the porcelain house of The AlDabil Mosque
Almost all of the Chinese treasures of the Aldabil Mosque in the National Museum of Iran come from the Longquan kiln and the Jingdezhen kiln. This collection not only covers the nearly 600-year history of ceramics in China's Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, but also reflects the political, economic and social changes at that time.
Yuan Qinghua Eight Treasures Phoenix Pattern Diamond Mouth along the large plate (partial) Iranian National Museum collection
The Jingdezhen kiln factory has been producing white porcelain until the manufacture of blue and white porcelain. At that time, because the surface of white porcelain here was bright, clear and smooth, coupled with the fine tire quality, hard and durable, no country in the world could produce similar products.
But this kind of pure white porcelain does not meet the taste of the Islamic world, because Islam believes that white space and gaps will make the devil pass through it, so the Islamic art we see is mostly full of fine decoration and ornamentation.
China and Iran, each on one side of Asia, seem to have a difficult direct connection, but because of the Silk Road, the two countries can communicate with each other by land and sea. The cultural relations between the two countries are particularly close, and the exchange of artworks between the two countries is also vividly reflected in the blue and white porcelain.
Early fifteenth century Blue and white skimmer bowl Height 9 cm Diameter 19.5 cm Collection of the National Museum of Iran
Late sixteenth century Blue and white skimmer bowl Height 9.5 cm Diameter 22 cm Collection of the National Museum of Iran
Early fifteenth century or "transitional period" Blue and white Dun-style bowl Height 12 cm Diameter 29 cm Collection of the National Museum of Iran
Early fifteenth century Blue and white tangled vines flat fold along a large plate Diameter 37.5 cm Collection of the National Museum of Iran
Late fifteenth century Blue and white flat bottom folded along the pot Height 8 cm Diameter 30 cm Collection of the National Museum of Iran
Early fifteenth century Blue and white mountain stone plant floral pattern flat mouth along the large plate diameter 63.5 cm Collection of the National Museum of Iran
Mid-fifteenth century Annan blue and white fold along the plate of the National Museum of Iran collection
Late fifteenth century Blue and white lion rolling hydrangea wrapped in silk with flat mouth along the plate Diameter 18 cm Collection of the National Museum of Iran
Late sixteenth century Blue and White Year Han Sanyou Deer Pattern Diamond Bowl Height 6 cm Diameter 21 cm Collection of the National Museum of Iran
Blue and blue white flower cloud shoulder phoenix pattern rhombus mouth large plate
Blue-and-flowered banana leaf melon fruit pattern round mouth plate
Blue and flower lotus pond mandarin duck pattern round mouth plate
Blue and blue white flowers double phoenix pattern rhombus mouth large plate
Blue and lotus pond pattern round mouth large plate
Yuanqing Hualien Pond Double Fish Pattern Fold along the round mouth large plate
Yuanqinghua tangled peony pattern plum