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    This document summarizes three Chinese blue and white fishnet bowls from the late Ming dynasty. It describes their excavation from sites in the Netherlands dating back to the 17th century, as well as their decoration featuring fishnet patterns on the exterior and aquatic motifs on the interior. The document also shows the bowls in a 1645 Dutch painting and mentions their salvage from a sunken 1643 ship carrying late Ming wares to China. It discusses how the fishnet pattern originated in Chinese ceramics and was favored by Japanese consumers, eventually becoming highly stylized in Edo period Japan.

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    This document summarizes three Chinese blue and white fishnet bowls from the late Ming dynasty. It describes their excavation from sites in the Netherlands dating back to the 17th century, as well as their decoration featuring fishnet patterns on the exterior and aquatic motifs on the interior. The document also shows the bowls in a 1645 Dutch painting and mentions their salvage from a sunken 1643 ship carrying late Ming wares to China. It discusses how the fishnet pattern originated in Chinese ceramics and was favored by Japanese consumers, eventually becoming highly stylized in Edo period Japan.

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    This document summarizes three Chinese blue and white fishnet bowls from the late Ming dynasty. It describes their excavation from sites in the Netherlands dating back to the 17th century, as well as their decoration featuring fishnet patterns on the exterior and aquatic motifs on the interior. The document also shows the bowls in a 1645 Dutch painting and mentions their salvage from a sunken 1643 ship carrying late Ming wares to China. It discusses how the fishnet pattern originated in Chinese ceramics and was favored by Japanese consumers, eventually becoming highly stylized in Edo period Japan.

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    A Trio of Chinese Blue

    and White Fishnet Bowls

    Yichien Tsai s3638677 9th December 2022

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    Object description
    1. Excavated from
    • VOC director Dr. Zacheus de Jager (1599-1650)’s
    residence (1630-1650) in Enkhuizen, Northern
    Netherlands
    • Leliegracht in Amsterdam
    • Vlissingen, Southern Netherlands
    2. Size: approx. 14cm wide
    3. Decoration: underglaze b/w fishnet pattern
    on the exterior; fishes, crabs, and aquatic
    weeds
    on the interior
    4. Made in Jingdezhen, China; late Ming
    dynasty,
    Possibly Tianqi/Chongzhen periods (1620-
    1644)
    5.Discover
    Use of the world at blue
    domestic Leidenpigment
    University石子青 2
    Also seen here..
    Dutch Still Life Oil Painting, dated 1645
    • 66.5x50.5cm, oil on oak
    • 17th century Amsterdam artist Jan Janz Treck (1605-1652)
    • Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
    • Pewter, Kraak klapmuts, and an upside-down fishnet bowl
    Hatcher Cargo, sunk around 1643-46
    • Found off Southern China coast in 1983
    • Salvaged along with other late Ming transitional b/w wares
    • Pieces bearing inscription Guiwei 癸未 , cyclical year 1643

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    Museum pieces in Japan
    • Highly treasured as tea ceremony wares
    • Overglazed enamels or sometimes underglaze
    copper red
    • More applications on sake bottles, flasks, tea
    caddies, tea bowls, and wine cups or side dishes at
    various shapes and sizes

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    Origin and Continuity
    • Fish motifs in Song-Yuan ceramics
    • Auspicious pun on ‘surplus’ in Chinese
    • Net pattern almost absent in Chinese
    ceramics
    • Ordered by Japanese consumers? Ko-
    sometsuke
    • Imitated by early Imari wares
    • Fishnet pattern became very stylised in
    Edo Japan by removing animal motifs
    • Applications on other materials

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    Some thoughts
    • Why fishnet bowls intended for the
    Japanese market were found in the
    Netherlands?

    • Unlike popular kraak or highly


    received transitional wares, only
    broken excavated pieces and sunken
    ship wreckage, as opposed to
    heirlooms in Japan!

    • Why fishnet pattern has been


    favoured by the Japanese?

    • Why it became so stylised in Edo?

    • Possible origin?

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