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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Zu Chinesischen Perlmuttlacken des 14. Jahrhunderts (On 14th Century Chinese Mother-of-Pearl Lacquers)
Contributor:
Von Ragué, Beatrix
imprint:
Artibus Asiae, 1976
Published in:Artibus Asiae
Language:
German
ISSN:
0004-3648
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p> The identification of Yüan or early Ming mother-of-pearl inlaid lacquerware has up to now been extremely difficult in spite of the Ko ku yao lun mentioning their good quality and although one fragment has been excavated in Peking. The author introduces the idea that Chinese mother-of-pearl lacquers of the 14th century might have been inuflenced by Korean lacquerware of the late Koryo dynasty. She shows that Korean inlaid lacquers of that period might easily have come to China during the Mongol rule. Based on some technical and stylistic features typical for the Koryo mother-of-pearl lacquers, she shows that these features (the inlay of untwisted wire and two kinds of scrolls) occur on a few Chinese mother-of-pearl lacquers. Since two of those objects have a 14th century shape, since there are stylistic similarities with 14th century blue and white decoration and since these "Korean" characteristics do not become part of the technical or stylistic vocabulary of later Chinese mother-of-pearl lacquers, the author attributes these four pieces to 14th century China. </p>