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Hexagonal basin with cranes and bagua, Ming dynasty, Wanli period, China, 1572-1620.
Hexagonal basin with cranes and bagua, Ming dynasty, Wanli period, China, 1572-1620. Basin on integral bracketed pierced stand. The piece is painted with ogival panels which contain cranes amid stylised clouds above stylised waves and one of the eight trigrams. The corners have stylised clouds with similar clouds on top of the bracketed trefoil feet all beneath a narrow band of scrolling flower heads, with two applied partly unglazed boar heads. The trefoil feet are joined together with a flat glazed clay section with underglazed blue line borders. The base has a six-character Wanli mark in a rectangular cartouche and the piece is of the period. Like many of the Chinese exported ceramics to Japan, this piece was used as part of the Japanese tea ceremony, probably as a container for rinising tea cups (kensui).
Unique Identifier
AR919681
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
2184px × 2868px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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16TH CENTURY
17th century
artefact
Artifact
Ceramic
CERAMICS
Ceremony
china
CHINESE
color
Container
country
DYNASTY
Japanese Tea Ceremony
LOCATION
MING
MING DYNASTY
Museum of East Asian Art
Object
Porcelain
pot
Pottery
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Tea
Wanli period