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Figure with a porcelain bowlfront

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Figure with a porcelain bowl

  • Description

    Wilson Shieh, a Hong Kong artist born in 1970, is to a large extent a figure painter in the traditional mode. His paintings are executed in ink and colours on silk against a plain ground and with meticulous brushwork, yet they are far from traditional in style. In this series he has depicted naked figures alongside ceramic vessels and models from different historical periods ranging from around 200 BC until the late 1700s.

    The porcelain bowl shown here is in the style of the fifteenth-century, the finest period for blue-and-white porcelain. Examples are displayed in the gallery China from AD 800.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China (place of creation)
    Date
    2002
    Artist/maker
    Wilson Shieh (born 1970) (artist)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on silk
    Dimensions
    frame 65.5 x 48.5 x 2 cm (height x width x depth)
    page 50.9 x 39.9 cm (height x width)
    painting 37.5 x 26.8 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    organic › animal › animal product › silk,
    processed material › textile › silk
    Technique index
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted,
    painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented in honour of the 70th birthday of Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 2002.
    Accession no.
    EA2002.132

  • Further reading

    Vainker, Shelagh, and Xin Chen, A Life in Chinese Art: Essays in Honour of Michael Sullivan (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), illus. p. 103

Glossary

porcelain

  • porcelain

    Ceramic material composed of kaolin, quartz, and feldspar which is fired to a temperature of c.1350-1400⁰c. The resulting ceramic is vitreous, translucent, and white in colour.

Past Exhibition

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Location

    • currently in research collection

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