Contemporary youth
Prefer to collect all kinds of cute gadgets
Blind boxes, dolls, badges......
Met cute
I can't wait for "I want them all"!
These cute little things
Thousands of years ago, it also captured the hearts of the ancients
Or even across the ocean
Exported to overseas
This issue of "Let's Be Reborn, Cultural Relics"
Take you to understand
Ming Dynasty plain three-color pictogram holding pot
Reborn self-report
Hello everyone, I am the plain three-color pictogram holding pot of the Ming Dynasty. Not only am I a delicate elephant, but I also have a use value, which can be used for tea and wine. I've been silent underwater for more than 500 years, and now I'm back in the world, and the world is still adorable by me! Sure enough, cuteness is the human being who can grasp ancient and modern China and foreign countries. Read on and learn about my story↓↓
Collection of the South China Sea Museum, China (Hainan).
This plain three-color pictogram holding pot
The whole body is pictographic
Overall length 25cm
8.8cm in width
18.5cm in height
It's a veritable "little figure"
Ming · Su three-color pictogram holding pot Collection of South China Sea Museum, China (Hainan).
The baby elephant's trunk curls up
as a spout
It's as if it's about the world more than 500 years later
Make a curious chirp
The tail of the baby elephant curls upwards
as a pot handle
Saddle pad on the back
There is a vase on it
And the vase became the spout of the pot
Ming · Su three-color pictogram holding pot Collection of South China Sea Museum, China (Hainan).
The baby elephant is also depicted with delicate patterns
The edge of the saddle pad is engraved with a curly grass pattern
The neck of the treasure bottle is engraved with back lines
The shoulder is engraved with a ruyi cloud head pattern
Near the bottom is engraved with a lotus pattern
It's really "a small elephant, but it has all kinds of tricks"
Ming · Su three-color pictogram holding pot Collection of South China Sea Museum, China (Hainan).
Among the cultural relics out of the water this time
There are quite a few pictogram holding pots
The color and shape are different
Some are moon gray, some are purple gray
Some of their noses twisted in circles
Very playful and cute
Ming · Su three-color pictogram holding pot Collection of South China Sea Museum, China (Hainan).
In this "Deep Blue Treasure -
The No. 1 and No. 2 shipwrecks on the northwest slope of the South China Sea
Special Exhibition of Archaeological Achievements".
The Su Sancai pot on display is not only pictographic
There are also heron-shaped, spiral-shaped......
It makes people sigh at the ancient craftsmen
At the same time, ingenuity
Can't help but "plant grass"
The three-color pot unveiled in the special exhibition
Collection of the South China Sea Museum, Hainan Province, China
This plain three-color pictogram holding pot
There are four types of glazes throughout
The elephant body is glazed with white glaze
Saddle pads, elephant ears, elephant feet
and yellow glaze on the inside of the vase
Saddle pads, bridles, vase belly
Green glaze on base and outsole
The front of the elephant trunk and the shoulder and neck of the vase
Apply purple glaze near the bottom
Ming · Su three-color pictogram holding pot Collection of South China Sea Museum, China (Hainan).
In traditional Chinese culture
Red represents festivity, which belongs to the meat color
Other colors are plain
therefore
Colored porcelain with no or a small amount of red
It is called "plain three colors"
The "three" here means "many".
It's not that there are only three colors
The picture comes from CCTV News
Plain three-color porcelain
Often the porcelain is first decorated with a conical arch
After high-temperature cooking
Then apply different low-temperature glazes
Some need to be fired multiple times
The Su Sancai holding pot unveiled in the special exhibition Collection of the South China Sea Museum, China (Hainan) The picture comes from Hainan Daily
Plain three-color porcelain from the Ming Dynasty
It is most famous during the Zhengde period
This also reflects the period
The development of the production process of low-temperature colored glazed porcelain
And in this special exhibition
Artefacts from the No. 1 shipwreck
Also from
Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty
Inside the No. 1 shipwreck on the Northwest Slope of the South China Sea (photo taken in October 2022). The picture comes from Xinhua News Agency
"Deep Blue Treasure -
The No. 1 and No. 2 shipwrecks on the northwest slope of the South China Sea
Special Exhibition of Archaeological Achievements"
It is currently on display at the South China Sea Museum in Hainan, China
408 pieces (sets) of cultural relics out of the water
First public appearance
Make an appointment with your exhibition partner
Let's check in together
Tips for visiting the exhibition
Venue: Exhibition Hall 6, 3rd Floor, South China Sea Museum, South China Sea Museum, China
Time: Permanent exhibition as a permanent exhibition
How to visit: Free and no appointment required
Source: Hainan released a comprehensive China (Hainan) South China Sea Museum, CCTV News, Xinhua News Agency, and the Palace Museum