Vase with Poet Zhou Dunyi

China

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 204

The larger seated figure resting near the banks of a lotus pond is the scholar-official Zhou Dunyi (1017–1073), who wrote an elegant poem about his love for this flower. Representations of poets appear in Chinese ceramics in the fourteenth century and are often identified by references to their writings. A long inscription written on the bottom of this jar dates it to 1587, and indicates that it was commissioned for the use of an auxiliary palace in the southwest.

Vase with Poet Zhou Dunyi, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware), China

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Vase with Poet Zhou Dunyi, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware), China
Vase with Poet Zhou Dunyi, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware), China
Vase with Poet Zhou Dunyi, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware), China
Vase with Poet Zhou Dunyi, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware), China
Vase with Poet Zhou Dunyi, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware), China
Vase with Poet Zhou Dunyi, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware), China
Vase with Poet Zhou Dunyi, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware), China

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