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THBChinese Ming Dynasty Ceramic Temple for Tomb
Lot 79
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Dec 5, 2019
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East Asia, China, Ming Dynasty, ca. 1368 to 1644 CE. Wow! A large pottery temple or shrine, made to be placed in a tomb, with an elegant form featuring an elaborate entablature, four columns, and an interior space with decorative screens before it. The edifice is skillfully made via slab construction with molded decorative elements. It is glazed the distinctive Sancai green, with the columns painted an earthy red-brown and the flowers on the lower parts of the decorative screens painted a creamy white. Atop the temple, fired as a separate piece that sits atop it, is a high gabled roof, also glazed Sancai green. Size with roof: 13" W x 23" H (33 cm x 58.4 cm)
Tomb figures known as mingqi - also known as "spirit utensils," "vessels for ghosts," or "items for the next world" - and their accompanying possessions became popular sculptural creations during the Han Dynasty, though the tradition was hardly practiced during the tumultuous centuries that followed. Such pieces were revived during the Tang Dynasty (ca. 618 to 906 CE) and continued to be cherished in the Ming Dynasty. As a result, today we can easily picture what Ming life looked like - as the architecture of this temple, which would have been modeled from a real one.
Provenance: ex-Chow Su San Antiques Co. LTD, Hong Kong, China, acquired in 1989
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#150507Repaired from a few large pieces with some very small losses from the peripheries. The repairs are well done and unobtrusive. The roof is not attached to the body (this is intentional - they were fired as separate pieces).Condition
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