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Blue-and-White Pure Water Bowl with Landscape and Figures 明 崇祯十二年（公元1639年） Ming dynasty,12th year of Chongzhen period (1639) 唇口，圆腹下敛，高圈足。通体绘山水人物故事图。长方形开光内青花隶书“大明国江西道南昌府南昌县，信士商人萧炳喜助净水碗壹付，供奉萧公顺天王御前。崇祯拾贰年仲秋月吉立〞 五行四十四字。崇祯十二年即公元1639元，是明崇祯青花瓷断代的重要标准器。净水碗为佛前供器。净水碗因盛圣水而名,与碗座配套,用作佛前供器。此碗为崇祯民窑青花瓷佳作,所绘故事取自明末屠龙《昙花记》 明代后期，民窑青花开始绽放异彩，突破历来御窑装饰的既定风格，纹饰信笔挥就，颇有文人墨戏之情趣。这一装饰风格骤变的於器开启了清代青花和彩绘瓷艺术风格的新风。 The pure water bowl is so called because of its function of holding sacred water. It was used with a stand in front of Buddha statues. Adorned with a scene from the play The Story of Udumbara, composed by Tu Long of late Ming, this bowl is a masterpiece of the blue-and-white ware made in the civilian kilns of the Chongzhen period. Late Ming saw splendid achievements in blue-and-white wares of the civilian kilns. Breaking away from the rigid conventional decorative schemes of imperial kilns of past generations, potters wielded their painting brush freely, achieving an appeal of 'ink play' cherished by the literati of the time. The porcelains with drastic stylistic change produced during this period served as a harbinger of the new decorative style manifest on the blue-and-white and enameled wares of the Qing (1644-1911).        |
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