An Appreciation of the Blue-and-White Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty in the Palace Museum in Taipei

It is well known that the Palace Museum in Taipei has a large collection of ancient art treasures, many of which are of the world’s best quality.The collection of Ming Dynasty blue-and-white porcelain at the Palace Museum in Taipei is also a considerable one.This paper makes a brief comment on:

During the Hongwu period, great progress was made in the firing of red porcelain in glaze, compared with that of blue and white porcelain in Yuan Dynasty.But the number of blue-and-white porcelain is small, a few, and therefore more precious.

Ming Hongwu blue-and-white flower, lotus pattern, jade pot, spring vase.

Yongxuan blue-and-white is famous all over the world for 600 years. The blue-and-white porcelain of all dynasties is almost unsurpassed, due to its extraordinary artistic charm.Yongxuan blue and white flower set shape beauty, painting beauty, hair color beauty in one, fine embryo glaze.Especially in the Yongle period of the dragon lines, just to the strong, overbearing full, and Su Majiqing strong hair color to complement each other, representing a very high artistic achievement.

Mingyongle blue-and-white lotus vase with dragon pattern and sky ball

Mingyongle blue-and-white flower vase with flower pattern

Yongxuan period porcelain, seems to be greatly influenced by Western Asian art, modelling common imitation Western gold and silver utensils of the flat pot, hold the pot, hold the moon bottle, and so on, these types of modelling has never been seen before, is the Asian culture to learn from each other, the integration of witness.

Mingyongle blue-and-white flower pattern flat pot

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Mingyongle blue-and-white flower pattern pot

Ming Yongle blue and white flower pattern washing

Ming Yongle Green Huren music and dance pattern flat pot

Mingyongle green camellia flower pattern Ruyi ear flat pot

Mingyongle blue-and-white pattern flower pot with gourd-shaped ribbon and ear

Ming Yongle, blue and white, butterfly-shaped, jade pot, spring vase.

Minyong Lok-hwa’s flower-lotus lamellaelotuscotyledons

Ming Yongle blue flower lotus pattern cover plum vase

The art of porcelain in Yongle and Xuande period is the same, but it is not difficult to distinguish between them: the official kiln china in Yongle period has not yet standard writing habits, except for a few cases such as press hand cup, do not write money.The official kiln porcelain of Xuande period, in addition to a few cases such as strong cans, wrote money.The most common is” Daming Xuande year of preparation “six-character script.

Ming Xuande, Qing Hua, Tibetan language, lotus, double dragon pattern, monk hat and pot

Ming Xuande blue and white flower pattern lamp

Ming Xuande blue and white pattern, gourd-shaped, flat pot with ear

Mingxuande blue and white tea jars with begonia pattern

To Chenghua, Hongzhi period, the use of blue and white materials to choose high-quality equal green materials, hair color elegant pure, do not have a taste.In the period of Chenghua, the Imperial Kiln factory paid more attention to the production of the colorful varieties.And the Hongzhi period is to yellow glaze porcelain to walk the world alone.

Minɡ Chenɡhua blue and white sunflower pattern bowl

Minghongzhi blue and yellow gardenia fruit plate

Emperor Zhengde is a full-personality emperor, history books have written many of his” loose style, casual and even deviant “deeds, very playful and self-willed.”Arabic” is popular on the porcelain of the Zhengde Dynasty, although it is difficult to understand why the porcelain of the Zhengde period often wrote some Arabic that modern people do not understand at all, perhaps this is the hard to interpret it.

Ming Zhengde blue-and-white porcelain in Arabic seven holes

Jiajing, Longqing, Wanli three generations of ancestors and grandchildren, lasted nearly 100 years.The blue-and-white porcelain of its blue-and-white materials mostly use the precious blue-and-white material, its hair color is rich and brilliant hair purple.Often with domestic stone green material according to a variety of different proportions of formula, the hair color changes multi-terminal.In the later period of Wanli, the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Factory was burned. The Ming Dynasty Imperial Kiln stopped burning until the early Qing Dynasty.

Ming Jia Jing Qinghua Children’s Drama Cupping Cans

Longqing blue-and-white vase with dragon pattern

Minglongqing blue and white cloud dragon grain silver ingot box

Mingwanli blue and white flower fruit long square box with dragon pattern

Ming Wan Li Qing Hua Sanskrit Lotus-style Disc

Blue-and-white porcelain is a long-lasting variety of porcelain art history, is the artistic treasure of the Chinese nation.Jingdezhen official kiln blue-and-white porcelain in the Ming Dynasty is one of the best, can be said to lead, six hundred years.The Ming Dynasty blue-and-white porcelain in the Palace Museum in Taipei is always a national treasure the Chinese people are proud of, and each of the artifacts, are radiating eternal light, are quietly singing the brilliant Chinese culture…