Title

Deep blue and white fish bowl of sages in bamboo grove, 1630-1650. Artist: Unknown.

Caption

A blue and white transitional deep fish bowl, decorated in underglaze blue of good colour. On one side there are four sages discussing a Chinese painting in a bamboo grove, while nearby two servants watch one cooking, the other bundling up some scrolls. There is another scene of a scholar writing on a rock with two scholars looking on with two servants. The landscape has characteristic banana trees, clouds and mountain peak protruding from clouds. There are numerous 'v' grasses on the ground.
Bath (England), The Museum of East Asian Art

Date

1630

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B82_329

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

57,2Mb (1,3Mb) / 18,3in x 12,2in / 5477 x 3651 (300dpi)

Keywords

blue job domestic bowl discussion country discussing white China Chinese cooking cookery occupation color colour grove bamboo ceramic location century profession image porcelain studio shot servant fishbowl sage 17th century white background seventeenth century Museum of East Asian Art Transitional period underglaze blue object white colour Unknown ceramic Brian Brian McElney McElney Brian McElney ceramic object