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Fowling children rockery ornament Front

Wangye Museum

Wangye Museum
Shenzhen, China

The portrait of a child catching sparrows vividly reproduces the children's play in the Song and Jin dynasties, depicting the love of mutual help between brothers: the younger brother playing sparrows unfortunately flew to the rockery, holding an empty birdcage crying and wept, the lid of the birdcage was discarded, the older brother struggled to help his brother from the rockery to catch sparrows, conveying the ruler at that time advocated "Friendship between brothers. "The concept of "brotherly love". Thus, red and green colored porcelain, in addition to play, decoration, in ancient times also contains the function of education. And this kind of obviously has the function of displaying the appearance of painted ceramic sculpture products, to the public life of the art appreciation of extremely important research value. This is undoubtedly an important symbol of ceramic products from daily life, religious beliefs to appreciate the transformation of furnishings.

Details

  • Title: Fowling children rockery ornament Front
  • Date Created: late 12th - early 13th century
  • Physical Dimensions: Height 21 cm
  • Type: Porcelain

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