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Rock And Wave
The rock and wave design or Motif (visual arts), motif is found painted on the outer borders of some Asian ceramics. It originated in Chinese porcelain of the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) and was later very often used in Iznik pottery and other Turkish ceramics. It represents turbulent waves breaking onto rocks, which are generally depicted as a regular pattern with a considerable degree of stylization, especially in Turkish examples. It is normally in blue and white, even where other parts of the piece use other colours. The "rocks" are represented by blue spiral lines on a white background, and the waves by irregular shapes in white, sometimes with lines within them. Turkish versions of the design were produced by if not earlier. The Turkish designs are sometimes criticized as "poorly understood" versions of the Chinese motif, and in many pieces, the design seems to have lost the sense of the marine subject. Terms "Rock and wave" is a brusque Western version of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuan Porcelain 14 (cropped)
Yuan may refer to: Currency * Yuan (currency), the basic unit of currency in historic and contemporary mainland China and Taiwan ** Renminbi, the currency of modern mainland China, whose basic unit is yuan ** New Taiwan dollar, the currency used in modern Taiwan, whose basic unit is yuán in Mandarin ** Manchukuo yuan, the unit of currency that was used in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo ** Gold yuan, the unit of currency that was used in the Republic of China between 1948 and 1949 * Yen and yuan sign (¥), symbol used for yuan currency in Latin scripts Governmental organ * "Government branch" or "Court" (), the Chinese name for a kind of executive institution. Government of Taiwan * Control Yuan * Examination Yuan * Executive Yuan * Judicial Yuan * Legislative Yuan Government of Imperial China * Xuanzheng Yuan, or Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs during the Yuan dynasty * Lifan Yuan during the Qing dynasty Dynasties * Yuan dynasty (元朝), a dynasty of China rule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |