Scholar's Desk Set
Maker
Unidentified artist
Date18th century
MediumUnglazed porcelain
CultureChina
ClassificationsCeramics
Credit LineGift of William J. and Kathleen A. Cavanaugh
Terms
- Ceramics
- Decorative Arts
- Writing tools
- Porcelain
- Animals
- Bamboo
- Bats
- Beans
- Beetles
- Books
- Boxes (containers)
- Caterpillars
- Censers
- Clouds
- Dragons
- Flowers
- Fruit
- Mythological creatures
- Inkstones
- Insects
- Learning
- Lotus leaves
- Melons
- Oceans
- Peaches
- Pine tree branches
- Pine trees
- Plants
- Plum blossoms
- Plum trees
- Pods
- Pomegranates
- Scrolls (motifs)
- Seasons
- Vegetables
- Vessels - Incense burners
- Vines
- Waves
- Winter
- Chinese
Object number2000.012 a-j
Label CopyThis exquisite desk set includes an inkstone in the form of a peach, an ink-stick holder in the form of a melon, a pomegranate shaped water-dropper, a peach-form censer, brush-holders of bamboo design, pea pods to function as a brush rest, a seal paste box in the form of a book and scroll, and a scroll weight in the form of a dragon amid waves. Elaborately modeled and carved porcelain reached a pinnacle of production from the late 18th century into the mid-twentieth century.
Collections
Baiyang Shanren
Unidentified artist
Unidentified artist
Koryo Dynasty (918-1392); 12th or 13th century