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Description: | CULT unknown China or Japan East Asia This vase is one of a pair, possibly for the display of flowers on an altar in a temple or in the home. Black lacquer coloured vases were considered a most tasteful and sophisticated bronze style in China, and so were desirable for flower arranging in the months of winter and spring, when bronze was preferable to porcelain. Similar aesthetics in flower arranging lead to Chinese bronzes being imported and often copied by Japan from the Song dynasty onwards (960 - 1127). Vases such as this were initially used in Japanese temples, however they later became an integral part of the tea ceremony. They would have been used to display seasonal arrangements in the tokonoma or alcove, and would have been part of the prized karamono or Chinese objects often used in the tea ceremony. Many vases like this came to Europe via Japan in the late 19th century, such as the Chinese bronzes in the Victoria and Albert museum, which were purchased by Samuel Bing in Japan and sold in his shop in Paris as Japanese artefacts. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | JEN : BOUCHER_CHARDIN : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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