Vase with scenes and poems from Farming and Weaving
These vases bear scenes depicting rice farming and silk production, two important agricultural processes in premodern China. The imagery is based on the twelfth-century text Farming and Weaving (Geng zhi tu), which inspired imperial court paintings and woodcuts that served as models for artworks across media. Captions on one vessel describe “flattening rice paddy” (ludu) and “shelving silkworm cocoons” (shangcu). The characters on the other ceramic read “soaking rice seeds” (jinzhong) and “harvesting silkworm cocoons” (xiacu).
Artwork Details
- 清康熙 景德鎮窯五彩耕織圖瓶兩件
- Title: Vase with scenes and poems from Farming and Weaving
- Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi mark and period (1662–1722)
- Date: late 17th–early 18th century
- Culture: China
- Medium: Porcelain painted with overglaze polychrome enamels (Jingdezhen ware)
- Dimensions: H. 17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm); Diam. 7 in. (17.8 cm); Diam. of rim 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm); Diam. of base 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Bequest of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1960
- Object Number: 61.200.29
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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late 16th–early 17th century
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late 17th–early 18th century
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second half 15th century
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1368–1644
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