This is a Ming Dynasty Yongle Reign Sutra Box
A Gwailo's View of Han Zi ! A Blog featuring my experiments with Han Zi and digital typographic art and articles on Chinese derived characters. Also some articles on Chinese characters in general and their use of multiple Asian languages.
Showing posts with label ming dynasty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ming dynasty. Show all posts
Saturday, 11 July 2020
Chinese Gold Lacquer Box
The Japanese did not invnet using gold in Lacquer. Oh they refined its usage and technique in all sorts of beuatiful and wonderful ways developing maki-e and other techniques but while Chinese lacquer ware is best known for carved lacquet or inlay work with shell they did have a gold "engraving" technique.
Saturday, 14 March 2020
Chen Hong Shou - Plum
Some #ChinesePainting for a change #plumtree by #chenhongshou
There are dozens of plum tree paintings online but this eye caught my eye during a random search due to the curve of the branches around the rock. Its Ming dynasty.
Wednesday, 12 April 2017
Shen Zhou Dove Painting
#shenzhou #ming #dove #painting #chineseart
For our next YEAR of the BIRD sequence our avain will be the DOVE starting with this Chinese Painting by Shen Zhou from the Ming Dynasty. He is usually cited in art history texts as a landscape painter but he worked with other themes too!
For our next YEAR of the BIRD sequence our avain will be the DOVE starting with this Chinese Painting by Shen Zhou from the Ming Dynasty. He is usually cited in art history texts as a landscape painter but he worked with other themes too!
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