A ‘BLEU DE HUÉ’ BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘DRAGON AND LEAPING CARP’ BOWL, LATE QING DYNASTY, NOI PHU MARK

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A ‘BLEU DE HUÉ’ BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘DRAGON AND LEAPING CARP’ BOWL, LATE QING DYNASTY, NOI PHU MARK China for the Vietnamese Market, second half of the 19th century. Finely potted, with deep, gently rounded sides rising from a short straight foot to a rim fitted with a metal mount. The exterior boldly painted in cobalt-blue tones beneath a clear transparent glaze, depicting a stylized dragon writhing among swirling clouds above a pair of carp leaping through crashing waves that encircle the foot of the vessel. The interior left undecorated, as is the underside, which bears a two-character underglaze-blue mark reading Noi Phu. Dimensions: Height 9.2 cm, Diameter 18.4 cm From the 1700s onwards, kings of the Le-Trinh dynasty in Vietnam ordered porcelain from China for their court. This type is named after Hué, the 19th-century capital of the last royal dynasty in Vietnam, the Nguyen dynasty (1802-1945). Although Chinese artisans executed the painting, the Vietnamese rulers dictated the designs. Each ruler ordered ceramics of his own liking for use in his court, as well as presentation pieces to give to members of royal families and mandarin officials. The marks on bleu de Hué are frequently puzzling, the more so when one thinks one can read Chinese. Sometimes they appear to be readily legible, but that can be deceiving, because the meanings derive from adaptations of Chinese script by the scholar Nguyen Thuyen in the thirteenth century. Sometimes the characters are used in the Chinese sense, and sometimes they represent Vietnamese pronunciations or phrases.

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