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A blue and white 'Corpulent Moon Hare' deep rounded bowl
Chenghua mark, Late Ming, Circa 1643With deep rounded conical sides painted at the center within a double circle with a corpulent hare seated in a night landscape below an osmanthus (guihua) tree with scudding clouds and a full moon, and further chrysanthemum and bamboo sprays, the cavetto plain and a wide key-pattern band at the rim, the exterior with three evenly-spaced butterflies on a plain ground below the rim and between double-line borders, double encircled Chenghua mark to the base. 7in (17.7cm) diameter
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明晚期 約1643年 青花玉兔盌 For a group of twelve almost identical rounded conical bowls from the famed "Hatcher Cargo" recovered from an Asian vessel in the South China Sea by Captain Michael Hatcher, see Christie's, Amsterdam, 14 March 1984, lots 203 and 204.The Moon Hare or Rabbit is associated with the Moon goddess Chang'e, and is often depicted pounding the elixir of life with a pestle and mortar or making rice cakes. Here the connection is less obvious but nevertheless inherent in the depiction of the hare, moon and osmanthus.For a description of osmanthus and it's connection with lunar legends, see Terese Tse Bartholomew, Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art, San Francisco, 2006, p.287 no. 10.24. Also known as sweet olive, it is the flower of the eighth moon, it blooms around the time of the moon festival. They are often depicted with rabbits or hares as a result of the moon hare connection. The author depicts an example, one of a set of twelve Kangxi month cups (the eighth month) with a hare or rabbit seated beneath a blossoming osmanthus tree.
