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Our recent book, titled Leaping the Dragon Gate: The Sir. Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, by Dr Teresa Canepa and the.
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The dramatic warrior with two axes depicted in the center of this plate illustrates the addition of figures based on popular plays and novels to the repertory.

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History repeating: Xi Jinping like Chongzhen, the last Ming emperor

Washington (AsiaNews) - Recently, I took a break and reviewed the history of the Ming Dynasty. Unexpectedly, I discovered how much Chongzhen (the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty who hung himself as the peasant rebellion army entered the Capital Beijing) looked like the current Xi Jinping? The Ming Dynasty perished in the hands of Chongzhen, that ambitious emperor. Now Xi Jinping is also an ambitious emperor without much ability. The Ming Dynasty had many opportunities to coexist peacefully with rivals outside the borders, and refused to make peace even when the other parties asked. It kept seeking to be beaten up, until there was no return. Xi Jinping has acted just as the twin of Emperor Chongzhen.

Why? Scholars of all ages have surmised many reasons, and they are all very reasonable. To sum up, there are mainly the following three points. First, the top leadership only knew the plots and tricks of power struggles, instead of how to govern the country.

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Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Chongzhen period (1627–44)

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The dramatic warrior with two axes depicted in the center of this plate illustrates the addition of figures based on popular plays and novels to the repertory of kraak ware, a type of ceramic that was often exported to Europe. This warrior, who cannot be precisely identified, holds axe in his lowered right hand, with a second one in his belt, and may be allusion to Li Gui (also known as the Black Whirlwind), one of the heroes of the classic Ming novel The Water Margin (Shui Hu Zhuan). The composite groupings of flowers on the panel, on the other hand, reflect the impact of contemporaneous Turkish Iznik wares on the evolution of kraak ware in the early seventeenth century while some of the single blossoms represent tulips, a flower that was first cultivated in Turkey, and eventually spread to Holland as part of the development of global trade, including Chinese porcelains, in the late sixteenth an

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TIANQI or CHONGZHEN c.1620 – 1640 Transitional Porcelain

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Apocryphal Marks :
Apocryphal marks are frequently encountered on Chinese porcelain particularly on Kangxi Blue and White Porcelain, the mark of the Ming Emperor Chenghua who reigned from 1465 to 1487 being by far the most common, other Ming marks include Jiajing (1522-1566) and less frequently Wanli (1573-1620). These marks were not added to the piece to deceive, but more as a sign of reverence to earlier potters of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Occasionally they are used on pieces copying Ming Porcelain, these objects were probably made for collectors who could not afford the Ming original. Tianqi is an early period for such an apocryphal mark.

Ko-Sometsuke
Ko-Sometsuke is a term used to describe Chinese blue and white porcelain made for Japan. This late Ming porcelain was made from the Wanli period (1573-1620) and ended in the Chongzhen period (1628-1644), the main period of production being the 1620`2 and 1630`s. The porcelain objects produced were made especially for the Japanese market, both t