MING c.1550-1600. Ming Pottery.
Part of a Large Rare 16th Century Ming Pottery Mingqi Processional Set that Includes Mounted Musicians, a Processional Arch, Processional Banners as Well as Domestic Furniture Such as Beds, a Wash-Stand, a Kitchen Range, Screen, and a Scholars Desk as Well as Many other Objects.
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- Provenance
- Purchased from Kalen Chang in Hong Kong c.1985. Collection of Baroness Dunn. Lydia Selina Dunn, Baroness Dunn, DBE, JP was the Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council and Executive Council in Hong Kong in 1985-1988 and 1988-1995, after Rogerio Hyndman Lobo and Chung Sze Yuen respectively. She has been deputy chairman of HSBC in 1992-2008. As one of the most senior politicians in Hong Kong, Baroness Dunn had considerable influence in the Government of Hong Kong before her retirement in 1992, after Chris Patten was made Governor.
- Stock number
- 21429
- References
- A Ming stone processional group showing similar figures from the tomb of Mme Shen (1498-1577) were excavated in Tongliang xian, Sichuan province and illustrated in Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum.(Jessica Harrison-Hall.The British Museum Press, 2001. ISBN 0-7141-1488-X.) fig 1. page 546. Also see : Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum.(Jessica Harrison-Hall.The British Museum Press, 2001. ISBN 0-7141-1488-X.) for a Ming pottery group dated to 1450 - 1600 which includes many buildings, pages 550 -551, fig. 20:1- 20:7 For a glazed Ming processional group dated Jiajing 37th year, corresponding to 1558 see : Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Christie`s, New York 3rd December 1992, lot 287. For a further Ming glazed pottery set see : Fine Chinese ceramics and Works of Art, Sotheby`s New York, 28th May 1991, lot 212.
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This Ming processional group is highly unusual in both its quality as well as the objects included. Most of these groups are moulded with little or no hand decorated details, the present Ming group has a lot of fine detail added by hand, for example the brick work is delineated with a stylus, decoration is also added using punches for example on the cloth draped over the chair. The sections of the well come apart, the rope coil is painted onto the cylinder that is supported by a seperate pole. There are many Ming funerary sets known but carefully observed and crafted objects like the present example are very rare, the scholar`s desk with its writing equipment laid out is exceptional, it shows an ink-stone with black to show where it has been used, brushes, a brush-rest,as well as a book and water-pot. There are many other highly unusual object within this group.