Vase with landscape and poem by Zhu Xi
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.This vase was made in the seventeenth century, but it is inscribed with a poem written by the influential neo-Confucian thinker Zhu Xi (1130–1200) of the Southern Song dynasty. It reads:
On a pleasant day, I seek fragrance on the banks of the Si River;
The boundless sunlit landscape appears suddenly new.
Easily recognize the face of the eastern wind,
As myriad purples, thousands of reds—all are [the appearances of] spring.
—Translation after Yang Zhiyi
On a pleasant day, I seek fragrance on the banks of the Si River;
The boundless sunlit landscape appears suddenly new.
Easily recognize the face of the eastern wind,
As myriad purples, thousands of reds—all are [the appearances of] spring.
—Translation after Yang Zhiyi
Artwork Details
- 明崇禎 景德鎮窯青花朱熹詩山水瓶
- Title: Vase with landscape and poem by Zhu Xi
- Period: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
- Date: dated 1639
- Culture: China
- Medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)
- Dimensions: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Promised Gift of Julia and John Curtis, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary
- Object Number: L.2020.10.7
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art