china: 1000-1800
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Survey of the Decorative Arts
CHINA: 1000-1800
Dynastic Chronology
Neolithic ca. 7000-ca. 2000 BCE
Xia ca. 2070-ca. 1600 BCE
Shang ca. 1600-1046 BCE
Zhou 1046-256 BCE
Qin 221-207 BCE
Han 206 BCE-220 CE
Six Dynasties 220-589
Sui 581-618
Tang 618-907
Five Dynasties 907-960
Liao 916-1125
Song 960-1279
Jin 1115-1234
Yuan 1271-1368
Ming 1368-1644
Qing 1644-1912
Republic of China 1912-1949
People's Republic of China since 1949
For a detailed chronology see link on wiki.
Song (960-1279)
Yuan (1271-1368), Mongol rule
Ming (1368-1644)
Qing (1644-1911), Manchu rule
ROC1912-1949
People’s Republic of China
1949-
Early printed paper money, 12th c.
Portrait of the scholar Ni ZanCa. 1340
• Education (gentry, scholar elite)
• Commercialization (merchants)
• Collecting
Inscription: “1162. Lin’an prefecture. Fu family. Truly authentic, best quality.”
Sutra boxes from the Huiguang pagoda in Wenzhou, 1043.
Lotus Sutra (Tang-Five Dynasties), 9th-10th c. Excavated in Ruiguang Pagoda in Suzhou.
nijin - gold painting (literally “pasted gold”)
Cizhou ware
Twill damask, 11th-12th c.
Jizhou ware
Archaistic bronze vessel. Gift by Emperor Huizong to the eunuch Tong Guan in 1116.
sao xiangWashing the elephant
Ding Yunpeng painting
sao xiangWashing the elephant
Sweeping away icons
Jingdezhen
Porcelain plaque, painted by Wang Dafan, 1928. Table screen with porcelain plaque by Wang Dafan,1956.
Qin Xilin (b. 1942). Continuation, ca. 1995.Prof. at Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute, Fine Arts Dept since 1980, director since late 90s
Painted earthenware vessel. Neolithic.Banpo Culture. Ca 3000 BCE.
Qin Xilin (b. 1942). Continuation, ca. 1995. Li Lihong (b. 1974), “McDonalds #1, 2007. V&A
Porcelain market at Panjiayuan, Beijing, 2011, after privatization of Jingdezhen workshops in 1998.
Porcelain painter in Jingdezhen, 1992
Porcelain – Marco Polo porcellana/porcelaine – cowrie shell
Large dish in Asia Society, ca. 1350s. Inscription in Persian:Shah Jahan ibn' Jahangir Shah, 1063,” the date corresponding to 1652/1653.
The faithful disciple and member of the [Daoist] Jingtang Society, Zhang Wenjin of Dejian lane in the village of Shuncheng in Yushan county of Xinzhou Circuit, is happy to present an altar set of an incense burner and vases as a prayer for the protection of the whole family and for the peace and prosperity of his descendants. Noted on a lucky day in May 1351. Dedicated before the Xingyuan ancestral shrine of the [deified] General Hu Jingyi.
Marcel Breuer, Wassily Chair, 1927
Hans Wegner, KinastolDenmark, 1944V&A Late Ming 17thc V&A
1944