{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"3236"},"period":{"label":"Period","value":"Qing dynasty (1644-1911)"},"subclassification":{"label":"Sub-classification","value":"Chinese Porcelain"},"markings":{"label":"Markings","value":"Base makred with four character mark. \"Ya Yu Tang Zhi\" (Made in the Studio of Elegant Rain\""},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Museum Purchase"},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"G11.2.1"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"The exterior walls of this large circular pot are decorated with a continuous scene of Chinese scholars at a drinking party.  The scene begins with a group of scholars in Ming dynasty dress sitting at a table covered with food dishes and wine goblets.  Several large wine jars also rest on the floor beside the scholars.  The scene continues to the right with more images of scholars walking around aimlessly in an apparent state of drunkenness.  One scholar has collapsed on the ground and is being assisted by a young male servant.  Other scholars still further to the right are being propped up by their servants as they stumble away.  Bringing the scene back around to the table is a final group of scholars, one of whom is vomiting copiously on the ground while another makes faces at a fallen friend.  The interior of the pot is glazed but undecorated.  The base is unglazed except for a circle in the center that is inscribed with a four character mark reading yayutangzhi or \u201cMade for Elegant Rain Hall.\u201dThe drinking party portrayed here recalls many poems and stories from Chinese literature, without necessarily depicting a specific one.  The linear style of the painting, plus the fact that the figures are wearing Ming-style clothes, suggests that the painter may have drawn inspiration from printed book illustrations of the late 16th and 17th centuries.  The literary associations of the scene give it a patina of acceptability despite the debauched subject matter, and would have made this pot an appropriate furnishing for an affluent gentleman\u2019s study.  As in Western culture, many wealthy Chinese gave lyrical names to their estates, and even to specific buildings within their estates.  The \u201cElegant Rain Hall\u201d referred to on the bottom of the pot was probably the name of the original owner\u2019s house or studio.  \u201cElegant Rain Hall\u201d was in fact used as a sobriquet by a famous 18th-century scholar named Lu Jianzeng (1690-1768) and appears on some porcelains commissioned by him.  This pot was most likely produced after Lu\u2019s death, but may have been a private commission made for one of his descendents."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaRenditionNumber":"G11.2.1 view 6","publicAccess":"true","mediaImageURL":"https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/29222/full","rank":"0","pixelHeight":"5233","mediaCaption":"Photographer: Toni Hafkenscheid","pixelWidth":"7159","mediaID":"29222"},{"mediaRenditionNumber":"G11.2.1 view 5","publicAccess":"true","mediaImageURL":"https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/29223/full","rank":"0","pixelHeight":"5234","mediaCaption":"Photographer: Toni Hafkenscheid","pixelWidth":"7343","mediaID":"29223"},{"mediaRenditionNumber":"G11.2.1 view 4","publicAccess":"true","mediaImageURL":"https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/29224/full","rank":"0","pixelHeight":"5234","mediaCaption":"Photographer: Toni Hafkenscheid","pixelWidth":"7343","mediaID":"29224"},{"mediaRenditionNumber":"G11.2.1 view 3","publicAccess":"true","mediaImageURL":"https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/29225/full","rank":"0","pixelHeight":"5234","mediaCaption":"Photographer: Toni Hafkenscheid","pixelWidth":"7343","mediaID":"29225"},{"mediaRenditionNumber":"G11.2.1 view 2","publicAccess":"true","mediaImageURL":"https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/29220/full","rank":"0","pixelHeight":"5234","mediaCaption":"Photographer: Toni Hafkenscheid","pixelWidth":"7343","mediaID":"29220"},{"mediaRenditionNumber":"G11.2.1 (2)","publicAccess":"true","mediaImageURL":"https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/29226/full","rank":"0","pixelHeight":"5234","mediaCaption":"Photographer: Toni Hafkenscheid","pixelWidth":"7343","mediaID":"29226"},{"mediaRenditionNumber":"G11.2.1 base","publicAccess":"true","mediaImageURL":"https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/29221/full","rank":"0","pixelHeight":"5858","mediaCaption":"Photographer: Toni Hafkenscheid","pixelWidth":"6335","mediaID":"29221"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Scroll Pot with Drunken Scholars"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Asian Ceramics"},"rels":{"label":"Relations","value":"[]"},"subclassification2":{"label":"Sub-classification 2","value":""},"primaryMedia":{"value":"https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/29226/full"},"subclassification3":{"label":"Sub-classification 3","value":""},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":["Chinese Ceramics Interactive","Chinese Blue and White Porcelain","Chinese and Japanese Ceramics"]},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Origin: Jingdezhen, China"},"culture":{"label":"Culture","value":"Chinese"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"19th century"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"183480"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Overall: 19.5 × 37.8 cm (7 11/16 × 14 7/8 in.)"}}]}