Asian Art
Pair of Hexagonal Flower Pots
Ceramics
Details
- Author / creator
- China, Henan province, Yuxian, Juntai, Ming dynasty (1368-1644)
- Object type
- Ceramics
- Date or period
- 1300s–1400s
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 12.5 × 15 cm; Part 2: 13.4 × 14 cm
- Maker or workshop
- China, Henan province, Yuxian, Juntai, Ming dynasty (1368-1644)
- Period / style
- Ming dynasty period
- Place of origin
- China
- Acquisition method
- Bequest
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by the Linfield Collection, 1942
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
This deep hexagonal flowerpot, one of a pair in the collection, is numbered "8" and bears additional inscriptions to indicate specifically the location of its usage within the palace: "for use in the Study of Illumination (Mingchuang yong)" within the "Hall of Cultivating the Mind (Yangxin Dian)" of the Forbidden City. The inscriptions seem to suggest the Qing imperial provenance of this pair.
Materials and technique
Porcelaneous stoneware, numbered Jun ware
Signature and marks
八 (“8”); 明窓用 (“For use in the Study of Illumination (Mingchuang yong)”); 養心殿 (“Hall of Cultivating the Mind (Yangxin Dian)”)
